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Classical and Christian ideas in English Renaissance poetry : a student's guide

Title
Classical and Christian ideas in English Renaissance poetry : a student's guide / Isabel Rivers.
Author
Rivers, Isabel
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

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Subject
  • English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
  • Christian poetry, English > History and criticism
  • English poetry > Classical influences
  • Christianity and literature
  • Renaissance > England
  • Classicism > England
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Renaissance Poetry and Modern Readers -- 1. The Golden Age and the Garden of Eden -- 2. The Pagan Gods -- 3. Platonism and Neoplatonism -- 4. Stoicism -- 5. Views of History -- 6. Cosmology -- 7. Reformation and Counter-Reformation -- 8. Protestant Theology -- 9. Humanism -- 10. Biblical Exegesis and Typology -- 11. Theories of Poetry -- 12. Allegory -- 13. Numerology -- Bibliographical Appendix A English Renaissance Authors -- Bibliographical Appendix B Classical, Medieval and Continental Renaissance Authors.
ISBN
  • 041510646X
  • 0415106478 (pbk.)
LCCN
94012710
OCLC
  • 30516824
  • ocm30516824
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries