Ambition, Rank, and Poetry in 1590s England

Ambition, Rank, and Poetry in 1590s England
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 0252026284
ISBN-13 : 9780252026287
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Book Synopsis Ambition, Rank, and Poetry in 1590s England by : John Huntington

Download or read book Ambition, Rank, and Poetry in 1590s England written by John Huntington and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ambition, Rank, and Poetry in 1590s England focuses on the early work of George Chapman and on the writings of others who shared his social agenda and his nonprivileged status, including Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and Edmund Spenser as well as neglected writers such as Matthew Roydon and Aemilia Lanyer. Rather than placing poetry in the service of traditional social purposes - pleasing a patron, wooing a woman, displaying one's courtly skill, teaching morality - these writers held up poetry as important for its own sake: an idea taken for granted in much modern aesthetics."--Jacket.


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