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Poly-Olbion: New Perspectives

Poly-Olbion: New Perspectives

McRae, Andrew
Schwyzer, Philip
McRae, Andrew

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature, Book 38

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1843845482
ISBN13: 9781843845485
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: Feb 21 2020
Pages: 268
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
First collection devoted to the Poly-Olbion, bringing out in particular its concerns with nature and the environment.

Poly-Olbion (1612-1622), the collaborative work of the poet Michael Drayton, the legal scholar John Selden, and the engraver William Hole, ranks among the most remarkable literary productions of early modern England, and arguably among the most important. An ambitious and idiosyncratic survey of the history, topography, and ecology of England and Wales - ranging in its preoccupations from the supernatural conception of Merlin to the curious habits of beavers, and from celebrations of martial glory to laments over the diminishment of woodlands - the book seems determined to pack all of national and natural history between its covers. In the course of thirty songs, Drayton's Muse traverses a varying landscape in which personified rivers, hills, and forests sing of past glories and disasters, pursuing local and regional rivalries whilst propounding a heterogeneous vision of Britain. However, perhaps because of its very uniqueness, it has received relatively little critical attention.

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