The country house in English Renaissance poetry / William A. McClung
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1977. 1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #410476
ISBN: 0520031377
Physical description; 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The Origins of the Country-House Genre in the Myth of the Golden Age -- The Background of the Country-House Poem in England -- The Genre and Modern Historians -- The Contemporary Idealization of England -- The Hospitable Ideal and the Documents of Complaint -- The Ideal House -- The Verse Background -- Hall's Satire V, 2 -- The Architecture of the Country-House Poets -- The Traditional Manor and Its Plan -- Theobalds and Related Houses -- Bacon's Ideal House -- The Private Home -- Summary: The Tudor-Stuart Country House -- The Architecture of the Country-House Poets -- Jonson, Carew, and Herrick -- The Country Houses and Their Role: Architecture and Grounds -- The sponte sua Theme -- Good Housekeeping -- Praise of Patron and Host -- The Elevation of the Estate -- Marvell and Later Poets -- Solitude and Gardens -- "Upon the Hill and Grove at Bill-borow To the Lord Fairfax" -- "Appleton House": The Architecture and Gardens -- The Praise of a Patron -- The Elevation of the Estate -- Later Estate Poems: Cotton and Pope. Subjects; 1500-1700. English poetry Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. Pastoral poetry, English History and criticism. Country homes in literature. Country life in literature. Dwellings in literature. Manors in literature. Renaissance England. Architecture, Domestic England. English poetry History and criticism Modern. Jacobean poetry History. Renaissance England. Poetry in English, 1625-1702. Special subjects Country houses Critical studies. Poetry in English 1625-1702 Special subjects Country houses.
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