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Book The Polish Swan Triumphant

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  • Author : George Gömöri
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2013-11-18
  • ISBN : 1443854247
  • Pages : 167 pages

Download or read book The Polish Swan Triumphant written by George Gömöri and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This present collection of George Gömöri’s essays covers several centuries of Polish literature and its reception abroad. The first three essays are devoted to Jan Kochanowski, the greatest poet of the Polish Renaissance, followed by shorter pieces on Stefan Batory, King of Poland from 1576 to 1586, whom Montaigne thought to be ‘one of the greatest princes of our age’. This is followed by a comparative essay on the Pole Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński and the Hungarian poet Bálint Balassi, both important poets of the late sixteenth century, and an essay with an Amendment, investigating Sir Philip Sidney’s little-researched visits to Hungary and Poland. A substantial part of the book is devoted to the Baroque period, first on the poet Hieronim Morsztyn, recently rediscovered in Poland. A long essay analyses his first important work, Worldly Delights, a poem which illustrates the transition from the classical models of the late Renaissance to Baroque poetics. The following part of the book examines the huge impact that the neo-Latin poet Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski made on more than one English poet of the seventeenth-century, while also explaining the political reasons for his warm reception in England. “The Verse Letter of the Polish Baroque” follows the development of this interesting genre from Daniel Naborowski to Jan Andrzej Morsztyn. The final part of the book deals with the great precursor of modern Polish poetry, Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883). The final essays in this collection investigate Norwid’s views on Lord Byron, expressed both in his poetry and his public lectures in Paris, as well as the complex views of the Polish poet on nineteenth-century England, which he only briefly visited, and the United States where he resided for two years.

Book Baroque Latinity

Download or read book Baroque Latinity written by Jacqueline Glomski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the idea of the Baroque in European literature in Latin. With contributions by scholars from various disciplines and countries, and by looking at a range of texts from across Europe, the volume offers case studies to deepen scholarly understanding of this important literary phenomenon and inspire future research. A key aim of the volume is to address the distinctiveness of these texts by interrogating the usefulness and specificity of the term 'Baroque', especially in relation to the classical rules it transgresses to produce effects of grandeur, richness, and exuberance in a range of secular and sacred arts (e.g. music, architecture, painting), as well as various forms of literature (e.g. prose, poetry, drama). The contributors consider how and why Latin writing mutated from earlier humanist paradigms, thus exploring how ideas of 'early modern' and 'Baroque' are related, and examine the interplay of the theory and practice of the 'Baroque', including its debts to and deviations from ancient models, and its limits and limitations.

Book The Christian Minister  in Three Poetical Epistles to Philander  To which are Added  I  Poetical Versions of Several Parts of Scripture     III  Original Pieces     on Various Occasions

Download or read book The Christian Minister in Three Poetical Epistles to Philander To which are Added I Poetical Versions of Several Parts of Scripture III Original Pieces on Various Occasions written by Thomas GIBBONS (D.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1772 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Poems of Isaac Watts

Download or read book The Poems of Isaac Watts written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Literary History of Latin   English Poetry

Download or read book A Literary History of Latin English Poetry written by Victoria Moul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victoria Moul's groundbreaking study uncovers one of the most important features of early modern English poetry: its bilingualism. The first guide to a forgotten literary landscape, this book considers the vast quantities of poetry that were written and read in both Latin and English from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Introducing readers to a host of new authors and drawing on hundreds of manuscript as well as print sources, it also reinterprets a series of landmarks in English poetry within a bilingual literary context. Ranging from Tottel's miscellany to the hymns of Isaac Watts, via Shakespeare, Jonson, Herbert, Marvell, Milton and Cowley, this revelatory survey shows how the forms and fashions of contemporary Latin verse informed key developments in English poetry. As the complex, highly creative interactions between the two languages are revealed, the work reshapes our understanding of what 'English' literary history means.

Book Celestial Aspirations

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  • Author : Philip Hardie
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2022-03
  • ISBN : 0691197865
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Celestial Aspirations written by Philip Hardie and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artists Between the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination—poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religious—displayed a pronounced fascination with images of ascent and flight to the heavens. Celestial Aspirations explores how British literature and art during that period exploited classical representations of these soaring themes—through philosophical, scientific and poetic flights of the mind; the ascension of the disembodied soul; and the celestial glorification of the ruler. From textual reachings for the heavens in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne and Cowley, to the ceiling paintings of Rubens, Verrio and Thornhill, Philip Hardie focuses on the ways that the history, ideologies and aesthetics of the postclassical world received and transformed the ideas of antiquity. In England, narratives of ascent appear on the grandest scale in Milton’s Paradise Lost, an epic built around a Christian plot of falling and rising, and one of the most intensely classicizing works of English poetry. Examining the reception of flight up to the Romanticism of Wordsworth and Tennyson, Hardie considers the Whig sublime, as well as the works of Alexander Pope and Edward Young. Throughout, he looks at motivations both public and private for aspiring to the heavens—as a reward for political and military achievement on the one hand, and as a goal of individual intellectual and spiritual exertion on the other. Celestial Aspirations offers an intriguing look at how creative minds reworked ancient visions of time and space in the early modern era.

Book The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts

Download or read book The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Horace and Seneca

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  • Author : Martin Stöckinger
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2017-12-04
  • ISBN : 3110528894
  • Pages : 445 pages

Download or read book Horace and Seneca written by Martin Stöckinger and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sets out to explore the complex relationship between Horace and Seneca. It is the first book that examines the interface between these different and yet highly comparable authors with consideration of their œuvres in their entirety. The fourteen chapters collected here explore a wide range of topics clustered around the following four themes: the combination of literature and philosophy; the ways in which Seneca’s choral odes rework Horatian material and move beyond it; the treatment of ethical, poetic, and aesthetic questions by the two authors; and the problem of literary influence and reception as well as ancient and modern reflections on these problems. While the intertextual contacts between Horace and Seneca themselves lie at the core of this project, it also considers the earlier texts that serve as sources for both authors, intermediary steps in Roman literature, and later texts where connections between the two philosopher-poets are drawn. Although not as obviously palpable as the linkage between authors who share a common generic tradition, this uneven but pervasive relationship can be regarded as one of the most prolific literary interactions between the early Augustan and the Neronian periods. A bidirectional list of correspondences between Horace and Seneca concludes the volume.

Book The Life  Times  and Correspondence of the Rev  Isaac Watts

Download or read book The Life Times and Correspondence of the Rev Isaac Watts written by Thomas Milner and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hor   Lyric    Poems     To which is added  a supplement     by Thomas Gibbons     With a memoir of the author  by Robert Southey   With a portrait

Download or read book Hor Lyric Poems To which is added a supplement by Thomas Gibbons With a memoir of the author by Robert Southey With a portrait written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Poets

Download or read book The British Poets written by British poets and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts  D D

Download or read book The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts D D written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts     Collated with the Best Editions  by Thomas Park

Download or read book The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts Collated with the Best Editions by Thomas Park written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sacred Classics  Or  Cabinet Library of Divinity  Hor   lyric

Download or read book Sacred Classics Or Cabinet Library of Divinity Hor lyric written by Richard Cattermole and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of the British Poets

Download or read book The Works of the British Poets written by Ezekiel Sanford and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: