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Shakspere and his forerunners; studies in Elizabethan poetry and its development from early English.
- Title
- Shakspere and his forerunners; studies in Elizabethan poetry and its development from early English.
- Author
- Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881.
- Publication
- New York, Doubleday, Page, 1908.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Lanier, Henry Wysham, 1873-1958
- Description
- 2 volumes in 1. illustrations, portrait; 23 cm
- Alternative Title
- Studies in Elizabethan poetry and its development from early English
- Subject
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Knowledge and learning
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Language
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Philosophy
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- 1500-1700
- English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- Women in literature
- Sonnets, English > History and criticism
- Occultism in literature
- Music in literature
- Femmes dans la littérature
- Occultisme dans la littérature
- Musique dans la littérature
- Music
- English poetry > Early modern
- Language and languages
- Occultism
- Philosophy
- Sonnets, English
- Women in literature
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Music
- Music.
- Musique.
- Note
- "This work contains two sets of Shakspere lectures delivered by Mr. Lanier in Baltimore during the winter of 1879-80, one at Johns Hopkins University, the other to a class of ladies at Peabody Institute."--Pref., signed : Henry Wysham Lanier.
- Contents
- pt. I. Preface. Introduction. The Elizabethan writters -- the formal side of poetry. The supernatural in early English and in Shakspere : Address of the soul to the dead body compared with Hamlet. Nature in early English and in Shakspere : Beowulf and Midsummer night's dream. Some birds of English poetry : the phoenix of Cynewulf and of Shakspere, and the Twa dows. Women of English poetry down to Shakspere : St. Juliana and Love's labour's lost. The wife in Middle English poetry. The sonnet-makers from Surrey to Shakspere : (1) Place of the sonnet in poetry. (2) Tottel's Miscellany an d William Drummond of Hawthornden. (3) Daniel, Sylvester, Constable, and Habington. (4) Sidney's and Shakspere's sonnets -- pt. II. Pronunciation of Shakspere's time : with illustrations from The two gentlemen of Verona. The music of Shakspere's time. The domestic life of Shakspere's time. The doctors of Shakspere's time. The metrical tests. Man's relations to the supernatural as shown in Midsummer night's dream, Hamlet, and the Tempest. Man's relation to nature as shown in Midsummer night's dream, Hamlet, and the Tempest.
- LCCN
- 08031012
- OCLC
- ocm00962759
- 962759
- SCSB-697672
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library