Metamorphic Verse : : The Elizabethan Minor Epic / / Clark Hulse.

To Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, and other Elizabethans, the minor epic was an important medium for poetic experimentation, but today, too often separated from the culture that bore it, it is not well understood. This author examines the form of the minor epic and its place in Elizabethan literary...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 5393
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Texts
  • Introduction. Metamorphic Verse
  • Chapter 1. Minor Epic as Genre
  • Chapter 2. Petrarchan Rhetoric
  • Chapter 3. Marlowe, The Primeval Poet
  • Chapter 4. Shakespeare, Poet and Painter
  • Chapter 5. Chronicle, History, Legend
  • Chapter 6. Spenser's Ovidian Epics
  • Conclusion. Metamorphosis as Literary System
  • Index