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The Experience of Poetry - From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers (Hardcover)
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The Experience of Poetry - From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers (Hardcover)
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Was the experience of poetry-or a cultural practice we now call
poetry-continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia
from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben
Jonson's Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616? How did the
pleasure afforded by the crafting of language into memorable and
moving rhythmic forms play a part in the lives of hearers and
readers in Ancient Greece and Rome, Europe during Late Antiquity
and the Middle Ages, and Britain during the Renaissance? In
tackling these questions, this book first examines the evidence for
the performance of the Iliad and the Odyssey and of Ancient Greek
lyric poetry, the impact of the invention of writing on Alexandrian
verse, the performances of poetry that characterized Ancient Rome,
and the private and public venues for poetic experience in Late
Antiquity. It moves on to deal with medieval verse, exploring the
oral traditions that spread across Europe in the vernacular
languages, the place of manuscript transmission, the shift from
roll to codex and from papyrus to parchment, and the changing
audiences for poetry. A final part investigates the experience of
poetry in the English Renaissance, from the manuscript verse of
Henry VIII's court to the anthologies and collections of the late
Elizabethan era. Among the topics considered in this part are the
importance of the printed page, the continuing significance of
manuscript circulation, the performance of poetry in pageants and
progresses, and the appearance of poets on the Elizabethan stage.
In tracking both continuity and change across these many centuries,
the book throws fresh light on the role and importance of poetry in
western culture.
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