Maley, W. and Van Heijnsbergen, T. (2022) Scots poetry. In: Cheney, P. and Bates, C. (eds.) Sixteenth-Century British Poetry. Series: The Oxford history of poetry in English, 4. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 389-404. ISBN 9780198830696 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198830696.003.0022)
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Abstract
When Scots poetry of the sixteenth century is read within its own tradition, evolving late medieval beginnings with its own cultural–historical features, a body of work becomes visible that is attractive in its variety and its different emphases from English poetry. These differences interrogate received critical narratives of sixteenth-century poetry in English in the British Isles, for example, in terms of its periodisation (particularly through Scotland’s late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century humanist Renaissance); its different relationship between oral, printed, and manuscript transmissions; and its contrarian encounter with Petrarchan sonneteering. A sophisticated degree of metafictional engagement manifests itself throughout the century that, in its application of reason to affect, indicates that sixteenth-century authors position identity through an engagement with their rhetorical art rather than directly through their overflowing heart.
Item Type: | Book Sections (Other) |
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Keywords: | Scottish literature, Renaissance, poetry, poetics. |
Status: | Published |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Maley, Professor Willy and Van Heijnsbergen, Dr Theo |
Authors: | Maley, W., and Van Heijnsbergen, T. |
College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > Scottish Literature |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
ISBN: | 9780198830696 |
Published Online: | 01 April 2022 |
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