English Lyric Tradition
Subtitle: Reading Poetic Masterpieces of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781476664750
Subjects: English poetry, history and criticism
Description: "This readers' guide introduces to a 21st-century audience some of the greatest masterpieces of English poetry spanning five centuries. Focusing on poems by Chaucer, Wyatt, Shakespeare, Milton and others, the author discusses the development of poetic technique, explains the rhetorical culture of earlier centuries and describes the various lyric forms--including lover's complaints, sonnets and elegies"--