Classical, Renaissance, and Postmodernist Acts of the Imagination: Essays Commemorating O.B. Hardison, Jr

This collection of essays on poetics and poetry, with special attention to Shakespeare, includes the work of some of the nation's best-known and most respected scholars and authors. The major new essays, written especially for this collection, center on Hardison's interests, for example, Aristotle and classical poetics, Petrarch and Italian poetics, and the English Renaissance.