Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney

ISBN-13: 9781009223744 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Taylor Cowdery

Opis

This revisionist literary history of late-medieval and Renaissance poetry offers in-depth analyses of six major poets - Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, Lydgate, Skelton, and Wyatt - and reconstructs their ideas about the proper way to write. It sheds new light on the question of what these poets thought literature itself was made from.

Recenzje

'Cowdery deftly outlines the contours of late medieval poetry's engagement with both 'matere' - its themes, topics, preoccupations - and its habits of 'makying' - the characteristic ways that different writers treat both their subject matter and their own role as shaper of that matter. In doing so, he breaks new ground, arguing compellingly that to understand late medieval literary production fully, we must look at both diachronic and synchronic contexts for matter and making.' Kellie Robertson, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Maryland

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Words and deeds in Chaucer; 2. Gower and the crying voice; 3. Hoccleve and the force of literature; 4. Lydgate and the surplus of history; 5. Copy, copia and imitation in skelton; 6. Wyatt's Grace.