Poetry and the making of the English literary past, 1660-1781

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Label

Poetry and the making of the English literary past, 1660-1781

Statement of responsibility

Richard Terry

Creator

• Terry, Richard, (Richard G)

Subject

• Canon (Literature)
• Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
• Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
• English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
• English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
• British literature -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
• English poetry -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
• Literary historians -- Great Britain
• Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
• Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
• English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism | Theory, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Concentrating on the period 1660-1781, this book explores how the English literary past was made. It charts how antiquarians unearthed the raw materials of the English (or more widely) British tradition; how scholars drafted narratives about the development of native literature; and how critics assigned the leading writers to canons of literary greatness. Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past also analyzes the various kinds of occasion on which the contents of the literary past are rehearsed. Discussed, for example, is the rise of Poets' Corner as a national shrine for the consecration of literary worthies; and the author also considers a wide range of poetic genres that lent themselves to recitals of the literary past: the funeral elegy, the progress-of-poesy poem and the session of the poets poem. The book concludes that the opening up and ordering of the English literary past occurs earlier than is generally supposed; and the same also applies to the process by which women writers achieve their own distinctive form of canonical recognition."--Jacket

Cataloging source

UKM

Dewey number

820.9005

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR27

LC item number

.T47 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography