Lyric wonder : rhetoric and wit in Renaissance English poetry /

James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style - metaphysical wit and strong lines - as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the search for strange artifacts and animals to display in...

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Main Author: Biester, James
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1997.
Series:Rhetoric & society.
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Online Access:CONNECT