Overview
Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It: provides an account of the main classical and Christian ideas, outlining their meaning, their origins and their transmission to the Renaissance; illustrates the ways in which Renaissance poetry drew on classical and Christian ideas; contains extracts from key classical and Christian texts and relates these to the extracts of the English poems which draw on them; includes suggestions for further reading, and an invaluable bibliographical appendix.
- | Author: Isabel Rivers
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: December 19, 1994
- | Number of Pages: 244 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0415106478
- | ISBN-13: 9780415106474
