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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Occasional poetry"”.
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Joachim Du Bellay's Occasional Poetry: The Poetics of Female Patronage
… and contradictory, Du Bellay's rarely studied occasional poems to female patrons offer evidence that his poetic practice, examined in its social context, can provide useful insights into his conception of form.
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Statius' Silvan Poetics: A Synoptic Reading of the Silvae
… collection but as a carefully crafted series of poetry books. Of the five chapters, the first two have a conceptual and terminological focus, whereas the latter three approach the collection in terms of structuring elements. Chapter 1 proposes to read the title, Silvae, as a development of the …
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Female characterisation in the epic poetry of P. Papinius Statius
… Statius (c.AD 40-96) is best known for his occasional poetry, the Silvae, which is in scholarly vogue at present. He also composed a monumental twelve-book epic, little known until this century, concerning the myth of the Seven Against Thebes, as well as beginning a poem, popular in the …
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'Defragmenting the portrait': Catalina Clara Ramírez De Guzman, extremadura's No Conocida Señora of the golden age. A critical multidisciplinary reappraisal of the work of Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán (Llerena, 1618-c.1684)
… States. Apart from intermittent mentions of her poetry, she is virtually unknown among British Hispanists. This thesis seeks to fill many existing gaps in knowledge on her by providing a broader critical assessment of her surviving poetry than has been available thus far, particularly by …
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Letters of a Learned Lady : Sophia Elisabeth Brenner's Correspondence, with an Edition of her Letters to and from Otto Sperling the Younger
Sophia Elisabeth Brenner (1659-1730) was Sweden's first great female poet, writing and publishing her poems over a period of fifty years. She was also, however, a prolific letter writer. The dissertation is based on an inventory of all the preserved letters to and from her written in Latin, …