Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England
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...
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer International Publishing,
2018.
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Early Modern Literature in History
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| ISBN: | 9783319710174 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.