George Chapman by Millar MacLure PAPERBACK 9781487577292

George ChapmanA Critical Study\nAuthor(s): Millar MacLure\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487577292, 978-1487577292\nSynopsis\nGeorge Campman [tel] is one of the most important literary figures of the English Renaissance. A powerful personality, melancholy and witty, his style by turns obscure and elegant, he attempted almost every genre of poetry practised in his day: mythological narrative, philosophical poem, panegyric, elegy, comedy, tragedy, masque, and translation from the classics. \n\n This book is the first full-length critical study in English of all his works, poems, plays, and translations, considered in detail in relation to their genres, and in terms of Chapman's intellectual and aesthetic development. The major non-dramatic poems, the tragedies (which have often been the subject of critical comment) and \""Chapman's Homer\"" receive the largest share of attention, but the comedies, in .