The English Ode from Milton to Keats / / George N. Shuster.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Shuster, George N.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1940]; ©1940
• Year of Publication: 1940
• Language: English
• Series: Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature ; 150
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Examines the English ode as it was written during the period extending from the middle of the seventeenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century and considers the development of the form and uses to which it was put by writers who varied considerably in outlook, inspiration, and ability in order to present a history of the English ode, to consider the special values of the form, and to weigh the effect ode writing had upon the prosody of lyric verse.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- 2. The Ode Prior to John Milton -- 3. Milton and the Metaphysical Poets -- 4. Crashaw, Cowley, and the Pindaric Ode -- 5. John Dryden and the Restoration -- 6. Ode Writers of the Augustan Age -- 7. Collins, Gray, and the Return of the Imagination -- 8. Lesser Ode Writers and the Romantic Trend -- 9. The Ode and the Blue Flower -- 10. Conclusion -- Index