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The rhetoric of poetry in the Renaissance and seventeenth century

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

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Description
  1. 317 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  1. Traces the building of Italian, French, Spanish, and English poetic style in all its genres from classical models, Petrarch through Racine and Milton.
Subject
  1. Kölner Künstlervereinigung Stil
  2. 1450-1699
  3. Geschichte 1450-1700
  4. Geschichte 1330-1700
  5. European poetry > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism
  6. European poetry > 17th century > History and criticism
  7. Poetics > History > 17th century
  8. Poetics > History > 16th century
  9. Rhetoric, Renaissance
  10. European poetry
  11. European poetry > Renaissance
  12. Poetics
  13. Rhetoric, Renaissance
  14. Literatur
  15. Poetik
  16. Rhetorik
  17. Versdichtung
  18. Stil
  19. Dichtkunst
  20. Renaissance
  21. Poetics > History
  22. Rhetoric > 1500-1800
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  2. History
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.