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The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past by Anthony Welch

The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past

Anthony Welch

268 pages first pub 2012 (view editions)

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This book explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, Anthony Welch argues, came to view their written art as newly distinct from the ...

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