An edition of The Renaissance epic and the oral past
(2012)
The Renaissance epic and the oral past
by Anthony Welch
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This volume explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. 16th- and 17th-century poets, Anthony Welch argues came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral cultures of their ancestors.
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The Renaissance epic and the oral past
2012, Yale University Press
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0300178867 9780300178869
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Table of Contents
Tasso's silent lyre
The oldest song: Ronsard and Spenser
Interchapter: The lutanist and the nightingale
Harps in Babylon: Cowley, Davenant, Butler
Milton's lament
Epic opera
Coda: The singer withdraws.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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