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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... theme of the play . This improbable story , taken from Ariosto , gives wider significance to the theme that earthly authority , although it enables the wielder to take away life , does not empower him to bestow or preserve it ...
... theme of the play . This improbable story , taken from Ariosto , gives wider significance to the theme that earthly authority , although it enables the wielder to take away life , does not empower him to bestow or preserve it ...
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... theme is that man is no longer the lord of creation that he once was - ' We'are scarce our Fathers shadowes cast at noone ' . Not only had man shrunk to insignificance , but the whole world had become fragmentary rubbish . The passage ...
... theme is that man is no longer the lord of creation that he once was - ' We'are scarce our Fathers shadowes cast at noone ' . Not only had man shrunk to insignificance , but the whole world had become fragmentary rubbish . The passage ...
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... theme of this poetry is often that of unus non sufficit orbis . Donne's followers are all insatiate souls . Christopher Harvey speaks of ' man's dropsy appetite And cormorant delight ' , and one of his epigrams gives vivid emblematic ...
... theme of this poetry is often that of unus non sufficit orbis . Donne's followers are all insatiate souls . Christopher Harvey speaks of ' man's dropsy appetite And cormorant delight ' , and one of his epigrams gives vivid emblematic ...
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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