Literature

The English Lyric from Wyatt to Donne: A History of the Plain and Eloquent Styles

Hardcover

Price:
$172.00/拢146.00
ISBN:
Published:
Apr 19, 2016
1967
Pages:
400
Size:
6 x 9.25 in.

The author rejects C.S. Lewis’s theory of a 鈥淒rab鈥 and a 鈥淕olden鈥 school as unhistorical, and establishes the presence of an eloquent or courtly tradition and of a plain or contemplative tradition.

Originally published in 1967.

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