This book explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, Anthony Welch argues, came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral cul
- ISBN10 0300188994
- ISBN13 9780300188998
- Publish Date 13 November 2012
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 256
- Language English