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From the Aesthetic Point of View, Part 1: The Period From Langland to Spenser is a scholarly journey through early English poetry, tracing how a new era of thought reshaped form, style, and meaning. This edition presents the author’s careful analysis of poets from Langland to Spenser, highlighting how ideas about allegory, metaphor, and tone colors fueled a Renaissance mind-set.
In clear, methodical chapters, the book shows how poets moved from medieval to Renaissance sensibilities. It examines how form and technique evolved with influence from earlier work, while keeping a firm eye on how readers experience poetry. The discussion is supported by tables and close readings that illuminate the shifts in subject matter, technique, and expression.
- Grounded exploration of allegory, personification, metaphor, and associated types across key poets.
- Analysis of the transition from medieval to Renaissance creativity, with attention to rhythm and tone.
- Contextual framing of major figures such as Langland, Chaucer, Wyatt, Surrey, Sackville, and Spenser.
- Use of organized evidence, including tables that map the development of poetic technique.
Ideal for students and lovers of English poetry history who want a dense, text-driven understanding of how early poets helped shape the modern voice.
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Excerpt from From the Aesthetic Point of View; Part 1; The Period From Langland to Spenser: Inaugural Dissertation Presented to the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig for the Doctor's Degree
III. Types of Intellectual Power. Hamlet, Odysseus, the Deerslayer, Iago, Mephistopheles. This is the period of youth in its admiration of brains.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from From the Aesthetic Point of View; Part 1; The Period From Langland to Spenser: Inaugural Dissertation Presented to the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig for the Doctor's Degree
I have always felt that writings about literature from the aesthetic point of view were very largely valueless for two chief reasons.
In the first place such work is not based upon research. It does not rest upon a mass of scientific proof, proceeding from a body of well ascertained facts such as would be demanded in any other department of inquiry. Consequently it fails to appeal to him who believes that increase of knowledge depends first of all upon at least measurably exact methods of investigation. Instead criticism has come to be based upon a certain power of intuitive perception called taste, which, however valuable, can hardly be called a promoter of scientific confidence. In the second place the element of personality enters into writing of this sort more than is permitted in work with any claim to scientific worth. Judgements about literature and art are mostly ex cathedra. With people in general the value of a criticism depends more upon the reputation of the critic than upon any logical scientific excellencies of his work itself. If, as however often happens, it appeals directly by its justice and clearness it does so because the reader has through unconscious growth become the equal of the critic beforehand in appreciation. Criticism unlike science cannot of itself engender belief, cannot instruct in any true sense of the word. It seems to me that these few remarks are in their nature self evident. How many of us have not often felt that aesthetics is indefinite and unsatisfactory?
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book presents a unique scientific approach to understanding the aesthetic qualities in poetry. The author, a specialist in literary theory, developed a system to identify and classify aesthetic elements, including poetic words, phrases, clauses, figures of speech, and personification. Drawing upon extensive research and examples from Chaucer to Spenser, the book demonstrates a scientific method for examining, and teaching the aesthetic elements of poetry. By isolating and examining the parts that make up poetic language, the book offers a new way for students, teachers, and scholars to appreciate and analyze the complexities of poetry. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781331541172_0
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