Excerpt from The Gentle Craft
Apart from The Overthrow of Proud Holofernes and from the doubtful Patient Grissel exotics as thoroughly domesticated as the stories of Arthur only one of the ballads that have been preserved, namely Alphonso and Ganselo, is foreign as to subject matter and scene. Indeed, viewed in the large, Deloney's poems disclose the native English note everywhere. His mind and art alike justify the term homemade a fact, which, as we shall see presently, goes far to explain the origin and character of his three novels.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book offers an accessible scholarly introduction to Thomas Deloney, a well-known Elizabethan prose writer and the author of three popular prose works in the late sixteenth century. His most famous work, 'The Gentle Craft', is a collection of prose narratives mainly concerned with the lives of members of London's shoemakers guild, and was clearly intended to celebrate the craft. The book is significant in its day for its realistic fictional elements, which were considered innovative for the time. It also signaled a shift in the focus of literature from courtly and aristocratic concerns toward the lives and interests of ordinary people. Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. The digital edition of all books may be viewed on our website before purchase. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9781331765219_0
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