The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past (Yale Studies in English)

by Anthony Welch

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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