This book offers a close survey of the changing audiences, modes of reading, and cultural expectations that shaped epic writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.According to Anthony Welch, the theory and practice of epic poetry in this period—including little-known attempts by many epic poets to have their work orally recited or set to music—must be understood in the context of Renaissance musical humanism. Welch's approach leads to a fresh perspective on a literary culture that stood on the brink of a new relationship with antiquity and on the history of music in the early modern era.
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Welch, Anthony
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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Brandywine River Museum
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Mariners' Museum, The
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Yale studies in English, New Haven, Connecticut, 2012
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Yale studies in English, New Haven [etc, cop. 2012
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United States, United States of America
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Memory of the World Librarian: Slowrotation
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, Anthony Welch argues, came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral cultures of their ancestors. Welch shows how the period's writers imagined lost civilizations built on speech and song--from Homeric Greece and Celtic Britain to the Americas--and struggled to reconcile this oral inheritance with an early modern culture of the book. Welch's wide-ranging study offers a new perspective on Renaissance Europe's epic literature and its troubled relationship with antiquity. Publisher's note
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This Volume Explores Why Renaissance Epic Poetry Clung To Fictions Of Song And Oral Performance In An Age Of Growing Literacy. 16th- And 17th-century Poets, Anthony Welch Argues Came To View Their Written Art As Newly Distinct From The Oral Cultures Of Their Ancestors. Tasso's Silent Lyre -- The Oldest Song: Ronsard And Spenser -- Interchapter: The Lutanist And The Nightingale -- Harps In Babylon: Cowley, Davenant, Butler -- Milton's Lament -- Epic Opera -- Coda: The Singer Withdraws. Anthony Welch. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 199-245) And Index.
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Explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, the author argues, came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral cultures of their ancestors.
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