Falco, Raphael,  1952- <br/><br/>
Conceived presences :  literary genealogy in Renaissance England / 
Raphael Falco. 
 - Amherst, Mass. :  University of Massachusetts Press,  �1994. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 235 pages). 
 - Massachusetts studies in early modern culture .
 - Massachusetts studies in early modern culture. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-221) and index. 
<br/><br/>Instant artifacts: vernacular elegies for Philip Sidney -- Rhymes to please the dead: Spenser's "Astrophel" -- "A fire now, that lent a shade": Ben Jonson's conversion of the Sidney Legacy and his crowning of Shakespeare -- Repudiated trees: genealogy and election in John Milton. 
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<br/><br/> This study explores the manner in which English Renaissance poets invented a poetic genealogy. The title comes from Franciscus Junius, who in 1638 used the term "conceived presence" to describe the ancient masters whose paintings had been lost but who nonetheless remained important forebears of the tradition of visual art. Raphael Falco applies the notion of "conceived presences" to late sixteenth-century poets intent on establishing a national literature. They too conceived the presence of their forebears, both ancient and modern. As Falco demonstrates, Elizabethan and Jacobean poets saw Philip Sidney as their most important modern precursor and placed him at the root of their family tree.  The book's introduction examines the use of heraldic and genealogical rhetoric in relation to theories of the origins of poetry. Subsequent chapters provide close studies of Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, and John Milton. Falco demonstrates a thorough knowledge of the most recent Renaissance criticism, both historicist and linguistic. His book reveals a promising synthesis of critical approaches, a New Humanism in which theoretical perspectives and philological research combine to shed light on the aesthetic ambitions of English Renaissance poets. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0585200815 9780585200811 1122053967 9781122053969 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1500-1700 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English poetry--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700<br/>Nationalism and literature--History--England--16th century.<br/>Nationalism and literature--History--England--17th century.<br/>Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)<br/>Authority in literature.<br/>Renaissance--England.<br/>LITERARY CRITICISM--Shakespeare.<br/>Authority in literature.<br/>English poetry--Early modern.<br/>Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)<br/>Nationalism and literature.<br/>Renaissance.<br/>Genealogie<br/>Literatur<br/>Renaissance<br/>English.<br/>Languages & Literatures.<br/>English Literature.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>England.<br/>Englisch.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Authority in literature English poetry  Early modern, 1500-1700  History and criticism Geschichte  1500-1700 Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Nationalism and literature  England  History  16th century Nationalism and literature  England  History  17th century Renaissance  England 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>History.<br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR545.N27  / F35 1994eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>821/.309