Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England

• Main Author: Partner, Jane (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Early Modern Literature in History
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.