Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Partner, Jane (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Early Modern Literature in History
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern.; Literature-Philosophy.; British literature.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; Literary Theory.; British and Irish Literature.

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 res...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Margaret Cavendish, Vision and Fancy
• 3. The 'Infant-Ey' in the Devotional Writing of Thomas Traherne
• 4. Vision, Geometry and Truth in the Poetry of Andrew Marvell
• 5. The 'Advice to a Painter' Poems and the Politics of Visual Representation
• 6. Vision in Milton's Epic Poetry
• 7. Conclusion.