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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: experience of poetry
    sub title: from Homer's listeners to Shakespeare's readers
  name:
    name part: Attridge, Derek
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 445 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  note: Derek Attridge.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Performance poetry
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Performance poetry
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Poetry, Ancient
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Poetry, Medieval
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Poetry
    temporal: 16th century
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PN4151 .A88 2019
  classification: 480
  identifier: 0198833156
  identifier: 9780198833154
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 180903
    record change date: 20190718163410.0
    record identifier: in00004075319