The Revival of Interest in Metaphysical Poetry and Its Effect of Modern Poetic Theory
Title | The Revival of Interest in Metaphysical Poetry and Its Effect of Modern Poetic Theory PDF eBook |
Author | G. D. Grayson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 171 |
Release | 19?? |
Genre | English poetry |
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The Revival of Metaphysical Poetry
Title | The Revival of Metaphysical Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Ellis Duncan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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The Metaphysical Poets
Title | The Metaphysical Poets PDF eBook |
Author | John Donne |
Publisher | Naxos Audiobooks |
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Release | 2014-05-10 |
Genre | FICTION |
ISBN | 9781843795933 |
These poems are done by 17th-century writers who devised a new form of poetry full of wit, intellect and grace, which we now call Metaphysical poetry. They wrote about their deepest religious feelings and their carnal pleasures in a way that was radically new and challenging to their readers. Their work was largely misunderstood or ignored for two centuries, until 20th-century critics rediscovered it.
The Reputation of the Metaphysical Poets During the Age of Johnson and the Romantic Revival
Title | The Reputation of the Metaphysical Poets During the Age of Johnson and the Romantic Revival PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur H. Nethercot |
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Pages | 54 |
Release | 1925 |
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The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Editions of the Metaphysical Poets, with Notes on Their Editors and Publishers
Title | The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Editions of the Metaphysical Poets, with Notes on Their Editors and Publishers PDF eBook |
Author | R. Moore |
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Pages | |
Release | 1932 |
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Metaphysical Wit
Title | Metaphysical Wit PDF eBook |
Author | A. J. Smith |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1992-01-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521340274 |
English metaphysical poetry, from Donne to Marvell, is conspicuously witty. A. J. Smith seeks the central importance of wit in the thinking of the metaphysical poets, and argues that metaphysical wit is essentially different from other modes of wit current in Renaissance Europe. Formal theories and rhetorics of wit are considered both for their theoretical import and their appraisals of wit in practice. Prevailing fashions of witty invention are scrutinized in Italian, French, and Spanish writings, so as to bring out the nature and effect of various forms of wit: conceited, hieroglyphic, transformational, and others from which the metaphysical mode is distinguished. He locates the basis of Renaissance wit in the received conception of the created order and a theory of literary innovation inherent in Humanist belief, which led to novel couplings of time and eternity, body and soul, man and God. Yet, he finds that metaphysical wit distinctively works to discover a spiritual presence in sensible events; and he traces its demise in the 1660s to changes in the understanding of the natural world associated with the rise of empirical science.
The Metaphysical Poets
Title | The Metaphysical Poets PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Constance White |
Publisher | |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Christian poetry, English |
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