The Atom In Seventeenth Century Poetry
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The Atom in Seventeenth century Poetry
Author | : Cassandra Gorman |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781843845935 |
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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.
Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century
Author | : Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson,Alastair Fowler |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : UOM:39015034278716 |
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This classic anthology, first published in 1921, has been instrumental in reviving interest in the seventeenth-century metaphysical poets and in securing for them the high reputation they now enjoy. This new edition includes the same poems as the original--love poems, divine poems, elegies, satires, epistles, and meditations by over twenty-five different poets ranging from Suckling and Donne to Marvell and Herbert. Grierson's brilliant introductory essay is included, while Alastair Fowler has contributed a new introduction and notes and modernized the spellings throughout.
The Breaking of the Circle
Author | : Marjorie Hope Nicolson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : UOM:39015020062660 |
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Seventeenth century Prose and Poetry
Author | : Robert Peter Tristram Coffin,Alexander Maclaren Witherspoon |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1168 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : IND:39000003920407 |
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Seventeenth century English Poetry
Author | : William R. Keast |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : UOM:39015020639715 |
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Thomas Traherne and Seventeenth century Thought
Author | : Elizabeth S. Dodd,Cassandra Gorman |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781843844242 |
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Thomas Traherne has all too often been defined and studied as a solitary thinker, "out of his time", and not as a participant in the complex intellectual currents of the period. The essays collected here take issue with this reading, placing Traherne firmly in his historical context and situating his work within broader issues in seventeenth-century studies and the history of ideas. They draw on recently published textual discoveries alongside manuscripts which will soon be published for the first time. They address major themes in Traherne studies, including Traherne's understanding of matter and spirit, his attitude towards happiness and holiness, his response to solitude and society, and his Anglican identity. As a whole, the volume aims to re-ignite discussion on settled readings of Traherne's work, to reconsider issues in Traherne scholarship which have long lain dormant, and to supplement our picture of the man and his writings through new discoveries and insights. Elizabeth S. Dodd is programme leader for the MA in theology, ministry and mission and lecturer in theology, imagination and culture at Sarum College, Salisbury; Cassandra Gorman is lecturer in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. Contributors: Jacob Blevins, Warren Chernaik, Phoebe Dickerson, Elizabeth S. Dodd, Ana Elena Gonz lez-Trevi o, Cassandra Gorman, Carol Ann Johnston, Alison Kershaw, Kathryn Murphy
Seventeenth Century Literature
Author | : Richard Foster Jones |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1024 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : UVA:X001234016 |
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English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century
Author | : Roberta Florence Brinkley |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : UOM:39015031008660 |
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