Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past: 1660-1781

ISBN-13: 9780198186236 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 368 str.

Richard Terry

Opis

This book explores how the English literary past was made. It charts how antiquarians unearthed the raw materials of the English (or more widely) British tradition; how scholars drafted narratives about the development of native literature; and how critics assigned the leading writers to canons of literary greatness.

Recenzje

Richard Terry's canvas is broad, and in lesser hands his argument might have been over-whelmed by detail. He moves easily across the historical range, writing with passionate clarity and not a little wit. He gives an enjoyable account of the forming of the canon of pre-Chaucerian poetry

O autorze

Richard Terry is Reader in Eighteenth-Century English Literature, University of Sunderland