Author: John DonnePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Elegies, and the Songs and Sonnets; Edited by Helen Gardner
Author: John DonneThe elegies and the songs and sonnets. Edited with introduction and commentary by helen gardner
Author: John DonneThe Elegies, and the Songs and Sonnets
Author: John DonneJohn Donne. The Elegies and the Songs and sonnets. Edited with introduction and commentary by Helen Gardner
Author: John DonnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Elegies, and The Songs and Sonnets
Author: John DonnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poesía inglesa
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Elegies and the Songs and Sonnets
Author: John DonnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Donne, John
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Elegies and the Songs and Sonnets
Author: John DonneThe Unimagined in the English Renaissance
Author: Andrew MattisonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 161147597X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
When we read poetry, we tend to believe that we are getting a glimpse of the interior of the poet's mind--pictures from the poet's imagination relayed through the representative power of language. But poets themselves sometimes express doubt (usually indirectly) that poetic language has the capability or the purpose of revealing these images. This book examines description in Renaissance poetry, aiming to reveal its complexity and variability, its distinctiveness from prose description, and what it can tell us about Renaissance ways of thinking about the visible world and the poetic mind. Recent criticism has tended to address representation as a product of culture; The Unimagined in the English Renaissance argues to the contrary that attention to description as a literary phenomenon can complicate its cultural context by recognizing the persistent problems of genre and literary history. The book focuses on Sidney, Spenser, Donne, and Milton, who had very different aims as poets but shared a degree of skepticism about imagistic representation. For these poets, description can obscure as much as it makes visible, and can create whole categories of existence that are outside of visibility altogether.
Puritans and Libertines
Author: Hugh M. RichmondPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520041790
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Book of the Heart
Author: Eric JagerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226391168
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
In today's increasingly electronic world, we say our personality traits are "hard-wired" and we "replay" our memories. But we use a different metaphor when we speak of someone "reading" another's mind or a desire to "turn over a new leaf"—these phrases refer to the "book of the self," an idea that dates from the beginnings of Western culture. Eric Jager traces the history and psychology of the self-as-text concept from antiquity to the modern day. He focuses especially on the Middle Ages, when the metaphor of a "book of the heart" modeled on the manuscript codex attained its most vivid expressions in literature and art. For instance, medieval saints' legends tell of martyrs whose hearts recorded divine inscriptions; lyrics and romances feature lovers whose hearts are inscribed with their passion; paintings depict hearts as books; and medieval scribes even produced manuscript codices shaped like hearts. "The Book of the Heart provides a fresh perspective on the influence of the book as artifact on our language and culture. Reading this book broadens our appreciation of the relationship between things and ideas."—Henry Petroski, author of The Book on the Bookshelf