[PDF] Hexastichon eBook

Author : John Donne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1105 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253058384

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This volume, the ninth in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, presents newly edited critical texts of 25 love lyrics. Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which these poems have appeared, Volume 4.2 details the genealogical history of each poem, accompanied by a thorough prose discussion, as well as a General Textual Introduction of the Songs and Sonets collectively. The volume also presents a comprehensive digest of the commentary on these Songs and Sonets from Donne's time through 1999. Arranged chronologically within sections, the material for each poem is organized under various headings that complement the volume's companions, Volume 4.1 and Volume 4.3.

Author : Adam McLean
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 2011-08-02
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ISBN : 9781366368393

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The Hexastichon was a memory system created by Sebastian Brand in 1503, involving sixteen figures which is supposed to help the reader to remember the events in each chapter of the Four Gospels, of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.The woodcut images, to the modern mind, seem bizarre and inexplicable.Sebastian Brant (1457 - 1521) is best known for his satirical work The Ship of Fools, 1494, and his Hexastichon is now totally neglected and unknown.

Author : Erin A. McCarthy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 11,58 MB
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019257356X

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When poetry was printed, poets and their publishers could no longer take for granted that readers would have the necessary knowledge and skill to read it well. By making poems available to anyone who either had the means to a buy a book or knew someone who did, print publication radically expanded the early modern reading public. These new readers, publishers feared, might not buy or like the books. Worse, their misreadings could put the authors, the publishers, or the readers themselves at risk. Doubtful Readers: Print, Poetry, and the Reading Public in Early Modern England focuses on early modern publishers' efforts to identify and accommodate new readers of verse that had previously been restricted to particular social networks in manuscript. Focusing on the period between the maturing of the market for printed English literature in the 1590s and the emergence of the professional poet following the Restoration, this study shows that poetry was shaped by—and itself shaped—strong print publication traditions. By reading printed editions of poems by William Shakespeare, Aemilia Lanyer, John Donne, and others, this book shows how publishers negotiated genre, gender, social access, reputation, literary knowledge, and the value of English literature itself. It uses literary, historical, bibliographical, and quantitative evidence to show how publishers' strategies changed over time. Ultimately, Doubtful Readers argues that although—or perhaps because—publishers' interpretive and editorial efforts are often elided in studies of early modern poetry, their interventions have had an enduring impact on our canons, texts, and literary histories.