Dunbar the Makar

di Priscilla Bawcutt (Autore)

Oxford University Press, 1992

Dunbar's genius has been recognised not only by critics but by modern poets such as Auden and Eliot. This critical study examines Dunbar's view of himself as a poet, or `makar', and the way he handles various poetic genres. New emphasis is placed on the petitions, or begging-poems, and their use for poetic introspection. There is also a particularly full study of Dunbar's under-valued comic poems, and of the modes most congenial to him - notably parody, irony, `flyting', or invective, and black dream-fantasy. Priscilla Bawcutt takes account of recent scholarship on Dunbar and also the literary traditions available to him, both in Latin and the vernaculars, including `popular' and alliterative poetry as well as that of Chaucer and his followers. In contesting the over-simple and reductive views purveyed by some critics that Dunbar is primarily a moralist, or no more than a skilled virtuoso, she has written a well-informed, critically searching, and balanced account of the poetry.

• Autore: Priscilla Bawcutt
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Anno: 1992
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 416 p.
• Dimensioni: 224 x 144 mm
• Peso: 663 gr.
• EAN: 9780198129639

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