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The Experience of Poetry: From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers

par Derek Attridge

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Was the experience of poetry - or a cultural practice we now call poetry - continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson's Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616? How did the pleasure afforded by thecrafting of language into memorable and moving rhythmic forms play a part in the lives of hearers and readers in Ancient Greece and Rome, Europe during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and Britain during the Renaissance?In tackling these questions, this book first examines the evidence for the performance of the Iliad and the Odyssey and of Ancient Greek lyric poetry, the impact of the invention of writing on Alexandrian verse, the performances of poetry that characterized Ancient Rome, and the private and publicvenues for poetic experience in Late Antiquity. It moves on to deal with medieval verse, exploring the oral traditions that spread across Europe in the vernacular languages, the place of manuscript transmission, the shift from roll to codex and from papyrus to parchment, and the changing audiencesfor poetry. A final part investigates the experience of poetry in the English Renaissance, from the manuscript verse of Henry VIII's court to the anthologies and collections of the late Elizabethan era. Among the topics considered in this part are the importance of the printed page, the continuingsignificance of manuscript circulation, the performance of poetry in pageants and progresses, and the appearance of poets on the Elizabethan stage. In tracking both continuity and change across these many centuries, the book throws fresh light on the role and importance of poetry in westernculture.… (plus d'informations)
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Focusing on Western society from Homeric Greece to early Jacobean Britain (the publication of Ben Jonson’s Works[1616] is the endpoint of this study), this book traces the different ways in which poetry was experienced and the extent to which ‘the peculiarly pleasurable experience’ of this ‘event of and in language’ transcends historical boundaries as a constant feature of this type of literature (p.2). Incorporating poetic traditions from other world cultures and periods would, of course, offer an even richer picture, and more could perhaps have been done in drawing such comparisons. But there are limits to all research, and Attridge is mindful to acknowledge ‘Western culture’ to be ‘a problematic concept’, while emphasising this present study to be a ‘selective account’ (pp.3-4). He presents a broad chronological treatment of his topic, distilling a significant amount of meticulous research into a clear format, with an extensive and up-to-date bibliography. Using reasoned deduction and evidence gleaned from selected works, as well as historical and material sources where available (e.g. paratexts, anecdotal accounts and iconography) to establish suggested norms, this book identifies characteristic forms of engagement with poetry for each period, both of transmission and reception, revealing cultural contrasts but also common threads between them, despite the many different metrical, linguistic and material manifestations to be found. A large number of colour illustrations are included, in addition to several aids to comprehension, such as translations, metrical markings, demonstrations, and the glossing of difficult words for passages quoted in Middle English.
 
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Was the experience of poetry - or a cultural practice we now call poetry - continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson's Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616? How did the pleasure afforded by thecrafting of language into memorable and moving rhythmic forms play a part in the lives of hearers and readers in Ancient Greece and Rome, Europe during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and Britain during the Renaissance?In tackling these questions, this book first examines the evidence for the performance of the Iliad and the Odyssey and of Ancient Greek lyric poetry, the impact of the invention of writing on Alexandrian verse, the performances of poetry that characterized Ancient Rome, and the private and publicvenues for poetic experience in Late Antiquity. It moves on to deal with medieval verse, exploring the oral traditions that spread across Europe in the vernacular languages, the place of manuscript transmission, the shift from roll to codex and from papyrus to parchment, and the changing audiencesfor poetry. A final part investigates the experience of poetry in the English Renaissance, from the manuscript verse of Henry VIII's court to the anthologies and collections of the late Elizabethan era. Among the topics considered in this part are the importance of the printed page, the continuingsignificance of manuscript circulation, the performance of poetry in pageants and progresses, and the appearance of poets on the Elizabethan stage. In tracking both continuity and change across these many centuries, the book throws fresh light on the role and importance of poetry in westernculture.

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