English Renaissance Literary Criticism.Vickers Brian, ed. English Renaissance The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the early 16th century to the early 17th century. It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that many cultural historians believe originated in northern Italy in the fourteenth century. Literary Criticism. Oxford: Clarendon, 1999. xv + 655 pp. index. $95. ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0-19-818679-7. This collection of Renaissance literary criticism from 1531 to 1675 includes the famous, the little-known, and the never-before-printed, and provides in its introduction a clear and comprehensive overview of differences in Renaissance and modern approaches to literary discussion. Included in that introduction are sections on prescriptive pre·scrip·tive adj. 1. Sanctioned or authorized by long-standing custom or usage. 2. Making or giving injunctions, directions, laws, or rules. 3. Law Acquired by or based on uninterrupted possession. and descriptive criticism, rhetoric and poetics po·et·ics n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) 1. Literary criticism that deals with the nature, forms, and laws of poetry. 2. A treatise on or study of poetry or aesthetics. 3. , originality and imitation, criteria of correctness, and the defence of literature. Primary text titles are presented in old spelling, but the texts themselves are modernized in spelling and punctuation in deference to general readers. All selections are annotated: classical and other sources are identified and translations for Greek, Latin, and Italian texts are provided. |
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