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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1997.
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Series: | Rhetoric & society.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |