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2009
This article emphasizes the importance of context, and of what is lost, when people approach the study of lyric poetry: even the one complete poem by Sappho turns out to be a fragment, because people can no longer hear the tune to which it was sung, because they do not know for whom she was singing.
Andrea Capra
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This article emphasizes the importance of context, and of what is lost, when people approach the study of lyric poetry: even the one complete poem by Sappho turns out to be a fragment, because people can no longer hear the tune to which it was sung, because they do not know for whom she was singing.
Andrea Capra
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2017
Legitimized by the poetry of the Bible, devotional lyric verse—crossing denominational lines, often combining Reformation spirituality with Renaissance rhetoric—flourished in early modern England. Poets like Mary and Philip Sidney and George Herbert modelled their work on the Book of Psalms, at times imitating the prosodic simplicity of the Sternhold ...
Elizabeth Clarke, Simon Jackson
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Legitimized by the poetry of the Bible, devotional lyric verse—crossing denominational lines, often combining Reformation spirituality with Renaissance rhetoric—flourished in early modern England. Poets like Mary and Philip Sidney and George Herbert modelled their work on the Book of Psalms, at times imitating the prosodic simplicity of the Sternhold ...
Elizabeth Clarke, Simon Jackson
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2011
Over the past two decades, critical emphases on social, cultural, and political topics in literary studies have greatly enriched our understanding and appreciation of poetic texts. Scholarship and critical reading have approached European Renaissance texts with an urgency that speaks even to the crises and divisions of our own troubled times, whether ...
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Over the past two decades, critical emphases on social, cultural, and political topics in literary studies have greatly enriched our understanding and appreciation of poetic texts. Scholarship and critical reading have approached European Renaissance texts with an urgency that speaks even to the crises and divisions of our own troubled times, whether ...
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This chapter focuses on the pastourelles of Jean Bodel, a type of Old French lyric poetry that often involves sexual themes depicted in natural settings. Pastourelles typically present encounters between shepherdesses and knights and were first developed in Provençal before Jean Bodel began writing them in French.
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College English, 1973
When timely death my life and fortune ends, Let not my hearse be vexed with mourning friends, But let all lovers, rich in triumph, come And with sweet pastimes grace my happy tomb; And Lesbia, close up thou my little light, And crown with love my ever-during night. AND LESBIA, WHAT IS IN IT FOR HER? If she helps this lover turn into a monument to love,
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When timely death my life and fortune ends, Let not my hearse be vexed with mourning friends, But let all lovers, rich in triumph, come And with sweet pastimes grace my happy tomb; And Lesbia, close up thou my little light, And crown with love my ever-during night. AND LESBIA, WHAT IS IN IT FOR HER? If she helps this lover turn into a monument to love,
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Telos, 1974
Lyric poetry shows itself most thoroughly integrated into society at those points where it does not repeat what society says— where it conveys no pronouncements—but rather where the speaking subject (who succeeds in his expression) comes to full accord with the language itself, i.e., with what language seeks by its own inner tendency. Traditional lyric
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Lyric poetry shows itself most thoroughly integrated into society at those points where it does not repeat what society says— where it conveys no pronouncements—but rather where the speaking subject (who succeeds in his expression) comes to full accord with the language itself, i.e., with what language seeks by its own inner tendency. Traditional lyric
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Criticism, 2012
LYRIC POETRY AS SOCIETY Infidel Poetics: Riddles, Nightlife, Substance, by Daniel Tiffany. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. 254. $66.00 cloth, $24.00 paper.Critics have recently renewed the assault on the lyric, this time in the name of restoring poetic texts to social contexts.
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LYRIC POETRY AS SOCIETY Infidel Poetics: Riddles, Nightlife, Substance, by Daniel Tiffany. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. 254. $66.00 cloth, $24.00 paper.Critics have recently renewed the assault on the lyric, this time in the name of restoring poetic texts to social contexts.
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