Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry

Acknowledged authors Rivers, Isabel wrote Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry comprising 244 pages back in 1994. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 0415106478 and 9780415106474. Since then Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price or rent at the marketplace.

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It:

• provides an account of the main classical and Christian ideas, outlining their meaning, their origins and their transmission to the Renaissance;
• illustrates the ways in which Renaissance poetry drew on classical and Christian ideas;
• contains extracts from key classical and Christian texts and relates these to the extracts of the English poems which draw on them;
• includes suggestions for further reading, and an invaluable bibliographical appendix.