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The fetters of rhyme : liberty and poetic form in early modern England /

"Long before the English fought a civil war over the meaning of liberty, poets were debating the benefits of constraint and the risks of bond-breaking. Early modern poets imagined rhyme as a band or fetter, and compared rhyme to the bonds that tie individuals to political, social, and religious...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rush, Rebecca M., 1987- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Sweet Be the Bands: Spenser and the Sonnet of Association
  • Licentious Rhymers: Donne and the Late-Elizabethan Couplet Revival
  • An Even and Unaltered Gait: Jonson and the Poetics of Character
  • Rhyme Oft Times Over-Reaches Reason: Measure and Passion after the Civil War
  • Milton and the Known Rules of Ancient Liberty.