Lyric Wonder : : Rhetoric and Wit in Renaissance English Poetry / / James Biester.

James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style—metaphysical wit and strong lines—as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the search for strange artifacts and animals to display in the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1997
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Rhetoric and Society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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