The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Poetry

AvMichael Schoenfeldt

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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Shakespeare's poems, aside from the enduring appeal of the Sonnets, are much less familiar today than his plays, despite being enormously popular in his lifetime. This Introduction celebrates the achievement of Shakespeare as a poet, providing students with ways of understanding and enjoying his remarkable poems. It honours the aesthetic and intellectual complexity of the poems without making them seem unapproachably complicated, outlining their exquisite pleasures and absorbing enigmas. Schoenfeldt suggests that today's readers are better able to analyze aspects of the poems that were formerly ignored or the source of scandal - the articulation of a fervent same-sex love, for example, or the incipient racism inherent in a hierarchy of light and dark. By engaging closely with Shakespeare's major poems - 'Venus and Adonis', 'Lucrece', 'The Phoenix and the Turtle', the Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint' - the Introduction demonstrates how much these extraordinary poems still have to say to us.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-10-07
Mått:155 x 235 x 13 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Antal sidor:174
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521879415

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Michael Schoenfeldt is Professor of English at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton and Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship, and he has contributed to publications including A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets and Imagining Death in Shakespeare and Milton.

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"Schoenfeldt's volume has all the merits of a first-rate lecture series. It provides the facts, engages judiciously with current scholarship, and models exacting readings of target texts." --Recent Studies of the English Renaissance

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1. Shakespeare and English poetry; 2. Shakespeare's banquet of sense: 'Venus and Adonis'; 3. 'My tongue shall utter all': constraint and complaint in 'Lucrece'; 4. Mysteries of the Sonnets; 5. 'All in war with time': progeny, poetry, and entropy in the Sonnets; 6. Friendship and love, darkness and lust: desire in the Sonnets; 7. Solitary and mutual flames: 'A Lover's Complaint' and 'The Phoenix and the Turtle'; 8. Passionate pilgrims: fantasies of Shakespearean authorship; Further reading.