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Hauptbeschreibung The political poetry produced over the last three decades in Britain and Ireland is marked by a rich diversity of commitments and concerns, a striving for the effective matching of poetic strategy and expressive purpose. The poets considered in this collection of essays differ widely in the intensity of their engagement and their ideological orientation. Their poems address social injustice, civil liberties, ethnic conflict and identity, sexual politics, green issues and urban development but turn also to the politics of aesthetics and the political role of poetry

Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1984 I -- 1. The Utopia and Radical Humanism 6 -- 2. The Reformation and Prophetic Poetry 28 -- 3. The Shepheardes Calender: Prophecy and the Court 53 -- 4. Sidney and Political Pastoral 82 -- 5. The Faerie Queene and Elizabethan Politics 97 -- 6. Voluntary Servitude: Fulke Greville and the Arts of Power 140 -- 7. Jonson and theJacobean Peace, 603-1616 155 -- 8. The Spenserians and KingJames, I603-I616 173 -- 9. Crisis and Reaction, 1617-1628 199 -- 10. The Politics of Milton's Early Poetry 224 -- Afterword 2002 270

no.3 The Tudor monarchy. -- no.4 Court and parliament, 1588 to 1688. -- no.5. The eighteenth century. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Seeks to demonstrate that the study of English poetry is enriched by the insights of modern linguistic analysis, and that linguistic and critical disciplines are not separate but complementary. Examining a wide range of poetry, Professor Leech considers many aspects of poetic style, including the language of past and present, creative language, poetic licence, repetition, sound, metre, context and ambiguity.

"The greater part of the twelve essays" delivered as "lectures of the Professor of Poetry at the Royal Society of Literature."--Pref. ; What is poetry?--Poetry and rhythm.--Poetry and personality. --Poetry and politics.--The poets and their friends. --Chaucer.--The approach to Shakespeare.--John Milton. --British ballads.--Futurism and form in poetry. --Poetry and education.--The poet and his audience. ; Mode of access: Internet.

This paper considers the different ways in which Early Middle English poetry deploys recent French loanwords. It argues that the associations attaching to these words change depending on the contexts in which they are situated. Focusing on four examples, two from the Auchinleck Manuscript and two from Harley 2253, it shows Middle English poems using French words in order to depict French identities; to elaborate political critique within England; to develop satirical portraits of characters beneath the ranks of the nobility and the gentry; and to stretch readers' imaginations to the corners of the known world. Recent French loans are identified using the first dates of attestation recorded in the Middle English Dictionary; an ancillary aim of the paper is to show how historical dictionaries can be used to establish the lexical expectations of medieval audiences. The argument's debts to historical linguistic scholarship are great but the paper claims that poetry deserves to be considered a text-type apart from the more pragmatic documents that historical linguists now normally treat.