English Renaissance literary criticism
In this collection of English Renaissance literary criticism, Vickers demonstrates that English critics in the period 1520 to 1650 owed most to classical writers on rhetoric and poetics: Cicero, Horace, Quintilian, Plutarch. Annotated selections identify classical and other sources and give translations for Greek, Latin, and Italian texts.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
XIV, 655 Seiten
9780199261369, 0199261369
180152861
PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; FURTHER READING; A NOTE ON THE TEXTS; GLOSSARY; LIST OF RHETORICAL FIGURES; INDEX