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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... religious poetry . Yet , paradoxically , religious verse is the one kind of writing in which it is possible for the poet , in all sincerity , to be insincere . The contradiction has been thus explained by T. S. Eliot : Above that level ...
... religious poetry . Yet , paradoxically , religious verse is the one kind of writing in which it is possible for the poet , in all sincerity , to be insincere . The contradiction has been thus explained by T. S. Eliot : Above that level ...
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... religious colouring to such emotions was bound to fail - and sometimes the poet herself admits the failure . In her prose writings , as in her life , she displayed little Romantic anguish and much of the serene common sense of Maria and ...
... religious colouring to such emotions was bound to fail - and sometimes the poet herself admits the failure . In her prose writings , as in her life , she displayed little Romantic anguish and much of the serene common sense of Maria and ...
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... religious consciousness of the seventeenth century . Yet there is little in the art of the Oxford Movement which suggests that it succeeded in this aim . How is this failure to be explained ? Its causes must have been many and complex ...
... religious consciousness of the seventeenth century . Yet there is little in the art of the Oxford Movement which suggests that it succeeded in this aim . How is this failure to be explained ? Its causes must have been many and complex ...
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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