Showing Results for
- Literature Criticism (866)
Search Results
- 866
Literature Criticism
- 866
-
From:Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis year's publications continue important conversations about shared issues of concern to all of us in the field. Although I can discern no seismic break with criticism from last year, work that hitherto might have...
-
From:Renaissance Quarterly (Vol. 53, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis essay argues that Stuart fairy poetry rooted in Shakespeare's innovative representation of tiny, consumeristic fairies, attempts to indigenize new forms of elite material display. Rather than the fairies of popular...
-
From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Duppa-Jonson friendship is quite well-known in the literary world, yet little attention has been paid to it. Bishop Brian Duppa was responsible for collecting and editing the 'Jonsonus Virbius,' a compilation of...
-
From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 42, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedJohn Donne was chosen as Prolocutor on February 7, 1626 when the Canterbury clergy met in Convocation at the Westminster Abbey. On the following day, he delivered an oration in Latin. Found recently are the text of the...
-
From:The American Poetry Review (Vol. 31, Issue 1)Thou knew'st this papyr, when it was Meer seed, and after that but grass; Before 'twas drest or spun, and when Made linen, who did wear it then . . . Henry Vaughan, "The Book" Covers are usually about...
-
From:Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Irish mantle--a type of long, heavy woolen cloak--came under regular attack by writers and lawmakers in Tudor and Stuart England. This article examines how a range of early modern English texts used the Irish mantle...
-
From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 52, Issue 1)The amens in Shakespeare, some 85 all told, have been much neglected by scholarship, so far as I am aware. A look at some of them may throw minor light on Shakespeare and religion; a handful of these amens may be of...
-
From:Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRecent scholarship has been interested in the early modern period as an age of self-actualization for the writer. Even in a moment in which criticism has distanced itself from old humanism, Renaissance man reappears in...
-
From: Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Cheney and Prescott discuss various aspects of teaching Spenser’s poetry about late-Elizabethan Protestant marriage in the classroom. Cheney and Prescott identify elements of...
-
From: English Studies[(essay date June 1990) In the following essay, Sokol identifies the form of "To His Coy Mistress" as a reductio ad absurdum argument rather than a syllogism.] Andrew Marvell's poem 'To His Coy Mistress' has long been...
-
From: The Sin of Wit: Jonathan Swift as a Poet[(essay date 1950) In the following essay, Johnson traces the beginnings of Swift’s poetic career and the evolution of his content, style, and skill from early imitative efforts to the use of the memorable images and...
-
From: ELH[(essay date spring 1984) In the following essay, Hiller discusses the appeal to Drayton of English bards and druids and his presentation of them in his verse.] Michael Drayton's preoccupation with the nature of poetry...
-
From: Studies in Philology[(essay date 1939) In the following essay, St. Clair discusses Drayton’s revisions to later editions of Ideas Mirrour. Amours in Quatorzains, considering how these changes demonstrate Drayton’s evolution as a poet.]...
-
From: Renaissance Papers[(essay date 1956) In the following essay, Bryant discusses the nature of allegory in Lyly's Endymion, focusing on its purpose to flatter Queen Elizabeth and its Platonic structure.] Ever since the publication of the...
-
From: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900[(essay date winter 1977) In the following essay, Revard discusses the poetical design of Poly-Olbion, Drayton's ambitious topological poem that attempts to chart every natural feature of the English landscape.]...
-
From: The English Civil Wars in the Literary Imagination[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Rogers discusses Cowley's Discourse by Way of a Vision in the context of how Restoration poets depicted the Royalists and the Puritans using apocalyptic imagery from the Bible...
-
From: Ovidian Transformations: Essays on the Metamorphoses and Its Reception[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Lyne traces the influence of Ovid's Metamorphoses on the overall design and themes of Poly-Olbion as well as on some of the details of the work's individual stories.] Critics...
-
From: The Transformation of Sin: Studies in Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne[(essay date 1974) In the following excerpt, Grant argues that the theology expressed in Traherne's poetry and prose is derived from the teachings of St. Irenaeus.] The so-called metaphysicals have long enough been...
-
From: The Journal of English and Germanic Philology[(essay date July 1919) In the essay below, Schultz suggests that too many critics have focused on Ship of Fools in order to define Barclay's impact on English literature and proposes that literary critics examine the...