English Literary Criticism by J W H Atkins

English Literary Criticism by J W H Atkins

Originally published in 1947, this volume reviews the critical achievement at the Renaissance. It discusses the ideas of literature then current in England, as revealed in contemporary theorizing and judgments. The period has sometimes been dismissed as lacking great critics, and the critical works themselves have been described as elementary and remote, but, as this work shows, viewed in the light of what came before and after, those texts will be found to be of considerable interest and possess intrinsic and historical value. This book charts the course of the movement and the main findings and their significance in critical history. There is an emphasis to show the part payed by the medieval tradition, with its inheritance of post-classical and patristic doctrine; the lead given by 15th Century Italian and other Humanists and the no less important attempts of independent native writers to work out new artistic and dramatic theory of their own.

J. W. H. Atkins was a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Aberystwyth

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ISBN 13	9780367763329
ISBN 10	036776332X
Titel	English Literary Criticism
Autor	J W H Atkins
Serie	J W H Atkins On Literary Criticism
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr	2023-05-01
Seitenanzahl	386
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