292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
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The literature of the English Renaissance demands some attention to the intellectual and educational background which produced it, in order to be seen in proper perspective. The selection in this book, originally published in 1985, both illustrate the intellectual climate of the English Renaissance and exemplify some of its characteristics, though not strictly literary products. These include... Read more
Introduction. 1. Education: Theory and Practice 2. Classicism and Imitation 3. Wisdom and Eloquence 4. Men and Affairs: History and Ethics 5. Religion and Vernacular Scripture.
Biography
Joanna Martindale gained a doctorate from Oxford University for her thesis on the response to Horace in the English literature of the seventeenth century. She published an article drawing on her research entitled ‘The best master of virtue and wisdom: the Horace of Ben Jonson and his heirs’ in Horace made new: Horatian influences on British writing from the Renaissance to the twentieth century (CUP, 1993). She was Librarian of Worcester College Oxford from 1992 to 2015.
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