The Sister Arts: The Tradition of Literary Pictorialism and English Poetry from Dryden to Gray.
- Author / Editor
- Hagstrum, Jean H.
The Sister Arts: The Tradition of Literary Pictorialism and English Poetry from Dryden to Gray.
- Published
- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.
- Physical Description
- xxii, 337 pp.; 39 illus.
- Description
- Studies the use of pictorial imagery in neoclassical English poetry, its aesthetic effects, and the "tradition out of which it grew," from the classics forward. Includes discussion of the Chaucer's ekphrastic descriptions in HF, KnT, and Rom, describing similarities and differences between his descriptions and classical practice. Also comments on expanded "pictorialism" in Dryden's and Pope's adaptations of Chaucerian works.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Romaunt of the Rose
House of Fame
Knght and His Tale
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