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- catalog abstract ""Concentrating on the period 1660-1781, this book explores how the English literary past was made. It charts how antiquarians unearthed the raw materials of the English (or more widely) British tradition; how scholars drafted narratives about the development of native literature; and how critics assigned the leading writers to canons of literary greatness. Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past also analyzes the various kinds of occasion on which the contents of the literary past are rehearsed. Discussed, for example, is the rise of Poets' Corner as a national shrine for the consecration of literary worthies; and the author also considers a wide range of poetic genres that lent themselves to recitals of the literary past: the funeral elegy, the progress-of-poesy poem and the session of the poets poem. The book concludes that the opening up and ordering of the English literary past occurs earlier than is generally supposed; and the same also applies to the process by which women writers achieve their own distinctive form of canonical recognition."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12328751.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Concentrating on the period 1660-1781, this book explores how the English literary past was made. It charts how antiquarians unearthed the raw materials of the English (or more widely) British tradition; how scholars drafted narratives about the development of native literature; and how critics assigned the leading writers to canons of literary greatness. Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past also analyzes the various kinds of occasion on which the contents of the literary past are rehearsed. Discussed, for example, is the rise of Poets' Corner as a national shrine for the consecration of literary worthies; and the author also considers a wide range of poetic genres that lent themselves to recitals of the literary past: the funeral elegy, the progress-of-poesy poem and the session of the poets poem. The book concludes that the opening up and ordering of the English literary past occurs earlier than is generally supposed; and the same also applies to the process by which women writers achieve their own distinctive form of canonical recognition."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. 'Literature': The Morphology of a Concept -- 2. The Progress of Poesy: Making an English Canon -- 3. Authorial Dictionaries and the Cult of Fame -- 4. Myths of Origin: The Canon of Pre-Chaucerian Poetry -- 5. Dryden and the Idea of a Literary Tradition -- 6. Teaching English Literature -- 7. Johnson's Lives of the Poets -- 8. Making the Female Canon -- 9. Classicists and Gothicists: The Division of the Estate.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-344) and index.".
- catalog extent "vii, 354 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0198186231".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "820.9005 21".
- catalog subject "British literature History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "Canon (Literature)".
- catalog subject "Criticism Great Britain History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Criticism Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "English literature 18th century History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "English literature History and criticism 17th century.".
- catalog subject "English literature History and criticism 18th century.".
- catalog subject "English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "English poetry History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "Literary historians Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Literature and history Great Britain History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Literature and history Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "PR27 T47 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. 'Literature': The Morphology of a Concept -- 2. The Progress of Poesy: Making an English Canon -- 3. Authorial Dictionaries and the Cult of Fame -- 4. Myths of Origin: The Canon of Pre-Chaucerian Poetry -- 5. Dryden and the Idea of a Literary Tradition -- 6. Teaching English Literature -- 7. Johnson's Lives of the Poets -- 8. Making the Female Canon -- 9. Classicists and Gothicists: The Division of the Estate.".
- catalog title "Poetry and the making of the English literary past, 1660-1781 / Richard Terry.".
- catalog type "text".