A Critical Edition of Alexander's Ross's 1647 Mystagogus Poeticus, or the Muses Interpreter: The Renaissance Imagination

ISBN-13: 9780367022822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 642 str.

John R. Glenn

Opis

First published in 1987, this is a critical edition of the 1647 text by the Scottish author Alexander Ross which offered the Renaissance reader not only a wealth of factual information concerning the gods, goddesses, heroes and monsters of ancient myth and legend, but also served as a treasury of interpretation and commentary ingeniously explaining the facts in terms moral, theological, historical and scientific.

Spis treści

Part I. Introduction. 1. Alexander Ross. 2. The Renaissance Mythographical Tradition. 3. Mythography in England. 4. Mystagogus Poeticus. 5. Composition and Text. Part II. Mystagogus Poeticus, or the Muses Interpreter.

O autorze

John R. Glenn