Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney

by Taylor Cowdery

What is literature made from? During the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, this question preoccupied the English court poets, who often claimed that their poems were not original creations, but adaptations of pre-existing materials. Their word for these materials was 'matter, ' while the term they used to describe their labor was 'making, ' or the act of reworking this matter into a new - but not entirely new - form. By tracing these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009223747
• ISBN13: 9781009223744
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"