
Hermogenes and the Renaissance
Seven Ideas of Style
Annabel M. Patterson(Author)
Princeton University Press
Will be published approx. on 19. April 2016
Book
Hardback
258 pages
978-0-691-64756-2 (ISBN)
Description
Annabel M. Patterson offers here a reassessment of the place of Hermogenes, a Greek rhetorician of the second century A.D., in literary history. She shows that the literary men of the European Renaissance-scholars, critics, and poets-found Hermogenes' Concerning Ideas both important and extremely useful, and she finds that they vigorously applied his concepts to create "a lovely conformitie." The author first gives the history of this treatise on style and a detailed critical analysis of the Seven Ideas or categories of style. The book then demonstrates genre by genre how knowledge of the Seven Ideas can improve one's understanding of poetic development, especially in England, and reveals how the Ideas operate in the works of Tasso, Donne, Sidney, Shakespeare, Marvell, Jonson, Spenser, Milton , and many other poets and critics. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
555 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-64756-2 (9780691647562)
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06/2015
1st Edition
Princeton University Press
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Annabel M. Patterson
Content
*Frontmatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. vii*Contents, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*1. "Imitation of Great Masters": Decorum of Style, pg. 1*2. "The Seven Capital Stars": Descriptions of the Seven Ideas, pg. 44*3. "High Talk": Canzone and Ode, pg. 69*4. "Savage Indignation": Elizabethan Satire, pg. 97*5. "True Nakedness": Elizabethan Sonnets, pg. 122*6. "Courage Means Running": The Idea of Speed, pg. 153*7. "The Grand Master-Piece to Observe": Renaissance Epic, pg. 176*Conclusion, pg. 214*Bibliography. Some Renaissance Editions and Translations of Hermogenes, 1500-1650, pg. 219*General Bibliography, pg. 221*Index, pg. 231