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Shakspere and his forerunners : studies in Elizabethan poetry and its development from early English / by Sidney Lanier.

Author/creator Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881 author.
Other author/creatorLanier, Henry Wysham, 1873-1958, editor.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info New York : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1902.
Description1 online resource (2 volumes, plates) : illustrations, portraits, plans, facsimiles.
Supplemental Content Gale, Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
Supplemental Content Gale, Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
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Series Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents v. 1. Introduction. The Elizabethan writers--the formal side of poetry. The supernatural in early English and in Shakspere: Address of the soul to the dead body compared with Hamlet. Nature in early English and in Shakspere: Beowulf and Midsummer night's dream. Some birds of English poetry: the phoenix of Cynewulf and of Shakspere, and the Twa dows. Women of English poetry down to Shakspere: St. Juliana and Love's labour's lost. The wife in Middle English poetry. The sonnet-makers from Surrey in Shakspere (1) Place of the sonnet in poetry. (2) Tottel's Miscellany and William Drummond of Hawthornden. (3) Daniel, Sylvester, Constable and Habington. (4) Sidney's and Shakspere's sonnets. Pronunciation of Shakspere's time: with illustrations from The two gentlemen of Verona.--v. 2. The music of Shakspere's time. The domestic life of Shakspere's time. The doctors of Shakspere's time. The metrical tests. Man's relations to the supernatural as shown in Midsummer night's dream, Hamlet, and the Tempest. Man's relation to nature as shown in Midsummer night's dream, Hamlet, and the Tempest, and Conclusion.
General note"This work contains two sets of Shakspere lectures delivered by Mr. Lanier in Baltimore during the winter of 1879-80, one at Johns Hopkins University, the other to a class of ladies at Peabody Institute ... The material has remained in manuscript until now, with the exception of a few chapters that appeared recently in Lippincott's magazine and Modern culture."--Pref.
General notePreface signed: Henry Wysham Lanier.
General note"This copy ... is one of an edition of one hundred and two, printed on va Gelder hand-made paper ... This is no. 35."
General noteReproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

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