Introduction: Canonical forms -- Vernacular eloquence: reading older poetry rhetorically -- What was a lyric poem? -- Anonymous Middle English lyrics on the Virgin Mary -- The love complaint ballade: Chaucer and Wyatt -- The love sonnet from Wyatt to Shakespeare -- The country house poem: Lanyer and Jonson -- The pastoral elegy: Milton's "Lycidas" -- Coda: The Irish dancer.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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