Author: Jack DalglishPublisher: Routledge/Thoemms Press
ISBN: 9780710045126
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Poets of the Early Seventeenth Century
Author: Jack DalglishPublisher: Routledge/Thoemms Press
ISBN: 9780710045126
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
English Lyric Poetry
Author: Jonathan PostPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134971214
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
English Lyric Poetry is a comprehensive reassessment of lyric poetry of the early seventeenth century. The study is directed at both beginning and more advanced students of literature, and responds to more specialised scholarly inquiries pursued of late in relation to specific poets. This extremely lucid and elegantly written book avoids the limitations of much recent criticism. Donne, Jonson, the Spenserians, Herbert, Milton, Marvell, Vaughan, as well as many non-canonical and women poets, all receive sustained, fresh, and detailed analysis. Jonathan Post seeks to assimilate many of the post-New Critical theoretical concerns with readings of the major and minor, male and female, authors of the period.
George Herbert and the Seventeenth-century Religious Poets
Author: George HerbertPublisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393092547
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
This volume presents the major works of five poets--George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan, and Thomas Traherne. While most of the selections are religious poetry, the important secular verse of Marvell and Crashaw is also included. Eighty poems by Herbert have been selected form The Temple, and two early poems from Issak Walton's Lives are also included.
The Atom in Seventeenth-century Poetry
Author: Cassandra GormanPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843845938
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
An investigation into the remarkable "poetics of the atom" in English literary texts from the mid to late seventeenth century. The early modern "atom" - understood as an indivisible particle of matter - captured the poetic imagination in ways that extended far beyond the reception of Lucretius and Epicurean atomism. Contrarily to fears of atomisation and materialist threat, many poets and philosophers of the period sought positive, spiritual motivation in the concept of material indivisibility. This book traces the metaphysical import of these poetic atoms, teasing out an affinity between poetic and atomic forms in seventeenth-century texts. In the writings of Henry More, Thomas Traherne, Margaret Cavendish, Hester Pulter and Lucy Hutchinson, both atoms and poems were instrumental in acts of creating, ordering and reconstructing knowledge. Their poems emerge as exquisitely self-conscious atomic forms, producing intimate reflections on the creative power and indivisibility of self, soul and God. The book begins with a survey of the imaginative possibilities surrounding the early modern "atom", before considering the indivisible centres of the Cambridge Platonist Henry More's cosmic, Spenserian poetics. The focus then turns to the lyrical bond formed between atom and soul in the writings of Thomas Traherne, and from there, to the experimental sequences of Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter, whose poetic spaces create new worlds and imagine alternative lives. The book concludes with a study of Lucy Hutchinson's creation poem Order and Disorder, which anticipates the regeneration of fallen being in atomic and alchemical terms.
Seventeenth-Century Poetry
Author: Robert CummingsPublisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISBN: 9780631210665
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Bibliographical and other aids make this an invaluable book for students engaging with the poetry of the period, whether for the first time or at a more advanced level of appreciation and acquaintance."--BOOK JACKET.
Poets of the Early Seventeenth Century
Author: Bernard Eustace Cuthbert DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Seventeenth-century British Poetry, 1603-1660
Author: John Peter RumrichPublisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393979985
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 999
Book Description
Twenty-nine poets writing from the 1603 ascension of James I, the first Stuart King, and the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, are included in this Norton Critical Edition.
Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth-Century Venice
Author: Sarra Copia SulamPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226779874
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Book Description
The first Jewish woman to leave her mark as a writer and intellectual, Sarra Copia Sulam (1600?–41) was doubly tainted in the eyes of early modern society by her religion and her gender. This remarkable woman, who until now has been relatively neglected by modern scholarship, was a unique figure in Italian cultural life, opening her home, in the Venetian ghetto, to Jews and Christians alike as a literary salon. For this bilingual edition, Don Harrán has collected all of Sulam’s previously scattered writings—letters, sonnets, a Manifesto—into a single volume. Harrán has also assembled all extant correspondence and poetry that was addressed to Sulam, as well as all known contemporary references to her, making them available to Anglophone readers for the first time. Featuring rich biographical and historical notes that place Sulam in her cultural context, this volume will provide readers with insight into the thought and creativity of a woman who dared to express herself in the male-dominated, overwhelmingly Catholic Venice of her time.
American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (LOA #178)
Author: David SheildsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Presents a collection of early American poetry in a tribute to the diversity and range of poetic traditions from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and includes regional music ballads and Native American translations.
Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England
Author: Jane PartnerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319710176
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This book reveals the ways in which seventeenth-century poets used models of vision taken from philosophy, theology, scientific optics, political polemic and the visual arts to scrutinize the nature of individual perceptions and to examine poetry’s own relation to truth. Drawing on archival research, Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England brings together an innovative selection of texts and images to construct a new interdisciplinary context for interpreting the poetry of Cavendish, Traherne, Marvell and Milton. Each chapter presents a reappraisal of vision in the work of one of these authors, and these case studies also combine to offer a broader consideration of the ways that conceptions of seeing were used in poetry to explore the relations between the ‘inward’ life of the viewer and the ‘outward’ reality that lies beyond; terms that are shown to have been closely linked, through ideas about sight, with the emergence of the fundamental modern categories of the ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’. This book will be of interest to literary scholars, art historians and historians of science.