ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1958
Jezik: Engleski
Vrsta: Istorija svetske književnosti
Autor: Strani

Helen Morris - Elizabethan Literature
Oxford University Press, 1958
239 str.
tvrdi povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Assuming that the life, literature and thought of any periods are closely interwoven, and that they illuminate each other, the author discusses Elizabethan writing against a background of Elizabethan life. Morris understands her subject intimately and has written a brilliant book about a brilliant period. She agrees with Sir Philip Sidnety that literature can only teach by delighting, assumes that books are read for pleasure rather that for profit, but believes nevertheless that the modern reader can get an enormous amount of both pleasure and profit from the literature of this golden age. Morris encourages the common reader not to be dismayed by the subtleties of the pundits, but to plunge boldly into Shakespeare, who was not only a genius, a poet, a philosopher, and an empirical psychologist, but an extremely skilled practical playwright, writing to delight a very mixed audience.


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