Poetry and HumanismCape, 1950 - 335 Seiten The strength of the seventeenth-century writers lies in their power to meet a challenge which later religious poets evaded. Donne and his followers are humanists, alive to all new discoveries about the physical world and the nature of man; but they are theocentric humanists, able to reconcile these discoveries with the central tenets of their faith as Christians. This book attempts to trace this reintegration in the work of the Metaphysical poets and of Milton, and suggests that in this reintegration lies the real affinity between seventeenth-century poetry and the Baroque mode in the visual arts. |
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... lines of that made in Herbert's poem : as the transient beauty of flowers is turned by a natural process to a lasting verdure , so the fading youth and beauty of human life are transmuted to an eternal happiness . But from the opening ...
... lines of that made in Herbert's poem : as the transient beauty of flowers is turned by a natural process to a lasting verdure , so the fading youth and beauty of human life are transmuted to an eternal happiness . But from the opening ...
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... Line from the Circumference , to the Circum- ference againe , as a Diameter , it passes the Center , it flowes from the Center , it looks to the Center both wayes . God is the Center ; The Lines above , and the Lines below , still ...
... Line from the Circumference , to the Circum- ference againe , as a Diameter , it passes the Center , it flowes from the Center , it looks to the Center both wayes . God is the Center ; The Lines above , and the Lines below , still ...
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... lines are taken . Each simile contributes to a total effect of uncontrollable violence . The noise of Chaos resembles that made by battering engines against the walls of a beseiged city ; and Satan's enterprise is as hazardous as the ...
... lines are taken . Each simile contributes to a total effect of uncontrollable violence . The noise of Chaos resembles that made by battering engines against the walls of a beseiged city ; and Satan's enterprise is as hazardous as the ...
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PREFACE | 7 |
TWO ANGLICAN POETS | 22 |
MARLOWES HEROES | 54 |
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angels artists Barabas Baroque art beauty body centre century Christ Christian Christina Rossetti Church conflict creation creatures death desire despair devotional Divine Donne's E. M. W. Tillyard earth echo Eighty Sermons Elegie Elizabethan emblem emblem books English epic eternity experience expression faith Fall fame Faustus Faustus's feeling fire glory God's hath heart Heaven heavenly Hell Henry Vaughan Herbert hero heroic human humanist Ibid idea Ignatius his Conclave imagery imagination intellectual Jesuit John Donne knowledge light Lord man's Mannerist Marlowe Marlowe's medieval metaphysical Milton mind nature Oxford Movement Paradise Lost Paradise Regain'd passage perfect philosophy physical poem poetry pride prose Raphael reason reintegration religious poets Renaissance rest Samson Satan sense seventeenth seventeenth-century Silex Scintillans Sonnet soul spirit stanza suggest Sunne symbol Tamburlaine thee theme theocentric things Thomas Vaughan thou thought tion Tractarians Traherne true verse words writings