Classical Genres and English Poetry (Routledge Revivals) Rhonda Rose-Sundholm Illuminating why unions

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Classical Genres and English Poetry (Routledge Revivals) Rhonda Rose-Sundholm Illuminating why unionsFirst published in 1988, this study explains how certain genres created by Classical poets were adapted and sometimes transformed by the poets of the modern world, beginning with the Tudor poets rediscovery of the Classical heritage. Most of the long lived poetic genres are discussed, from familiar examples like the hymn, elegy and eulogy, to less familiar topics such as the recusatio (refusal to write certain kinds of poems), or formal structures