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The rhetoric of poetry in the Renaissance and seventeenth century

Title
The rhetoric of poetry in the Renaissance and seventeenth century / John Porter Houston.
Author
Houston, John Porter.
Publication
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©1983.

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Description
317 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Traces the building of Italian, French, Spanish, and English poetic style in all its genres from classical models, Petrarch through Racine and Milton.
Subject
  • Kölner Künstlervereinigung Stil
  • 1450-1699
  • Geschichte 1450-1700
  • Geschichte 1330-1700
  • 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
  • European poetry
  • European poetry > Renaissance
  • Poetics
  • Rhetoric, Renaissance
  • Literatur
  • Poetik
  • Rhetorik
  • Versdichtung
  • Stil
  • Dichtkunst
  • Renaissance
  • Poetics > History
  • Rhetoric > 1500-1800
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
ISBN
  • 0807110663
  • 9780807110669
LCCN
82017227
OCLC
  • ocm08763702
  • 8763702
  • SCSB-65709
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library