The rhetoric of poetry in the Renaissance and seventeenth century / John Porter Houston
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1983. First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Spine sun-toned. Previous owner's signature to front free end paper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #466079
ISBN: 0807110663
Physical description; 317 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Petrarch -- Middle-style genres : the evolution of sixteenth-century lyric -- Some uses of low style -- Classicizing high style : Ronsard, Tasso, and Spenser -- Tragic poetry -- Devotional poetry : a confluence of styles -- From baroque to neoclassicism -- Racine and french Neoclassicism -- Milton and epic style. Subjects; Ko?lner Ku?nstlervereinigung Stil. 1450-1699. Geschichte 1450-1700. European poetry Renaissance, 1450-1600 History and criticism. European poetry 17th century History and criticism. Poetics History 17th century. Poetics History 16th century. Rhetoric, Renaissance.
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