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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Peter Auger (Lecturer in Early Modern Literature, University of Birmingham)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.560kg ISBN: 9780198827818ISBN 10: 0198827814 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 20 November 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order ![]() Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface 1: Introduction: The World as a Book Part I: A Jacobean Poet 2: History of a Friendship: James VI and Du Bartas 3: Solidarity and Compliance: Sixteenth-Century Translations 4: Curating the Protestant Imagination 5: Devine Weekes and its Readers Part II: Scriptural Poetry and the Self 6: Little Histories: Patterns for Divine Poetry I 7: Meditations: Patterns for Divine Poetry II 8: Writing for the Inner Eye 9: Retrospectives Appendix: Synopsis of the SemainesReviewsThe strength of Auger's book is that he has once more established Du Bartas as a vastly influential model and viable third route: indeed, in Auger's estimation, as nothing less than 'essential reading for any student of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary and devotional culture' (226). * Sebastiaan Verweij, The Spenser Review * ...an academic monograph that affords great reading pleasure. * Goran Stanivukovic, Renaissance and Reformation * ...an academic monograph that affords great reading pleasure. * Goran Stanivukovic, Renaissance and Reformation * Author InformationPeter Auger is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Birmingham. He previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Queen Mary University of London, and taught at Exeter College, Oxford. His work has addressed Franco-British literary relations, translation and imitation practices, literary reception, manuscript studies, epic and religious poetry, and language learning. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |