The Language of Renaissance Poetry: Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton
- Author / Editor
- Partridge, A. C.
The Language of Renaissance Poetry: Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton
- Published
- London: Andre Deutsch
- Physical Description
- 348 pp.
- Series
- The Language Library
- Description
- Seeks to "ascertain why the diction of poetry from Chaucer to Milton has a distinct character, and one unlikely to be revived." Chapter 2, "Chaucer and His Successors" (pp. 28-38), assesses Chaucer as "the first English poet with a style recognizably his own," considering issues of style and versification and the establishment of a "Chaucerian tradition." Comments on Chaucer's influence on Renaissance writers occur throughout the volume.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
- Style and Versification
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion