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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... Traherne's vision in his Songs of Innocence ; but he also realised that the problem had become one for corporate solution and that neither he nor any other single visionary could henceforth recapture Felicity . If we are to fix a point ...
... Traherne's vision in his Songs of Innocence ; but he also realised that the problem had become one for corporate solution and that neither he nor any other single visionary could henceforth recapture Felicity . If we are to fix a point ...
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... Traherne . If a significant vision sufficed to make a great poet , he would be among the greatest . He falls to the level of the minor poets only because his vision does not inevitably clothe itself in language - in a rhythm and an ...
... Traherne . If a significant vision sufficed to make a great poet , he would be among the greatest . He falls to the level of the minor poets only because his vision does not inevitably clothe itself in language - in a rhythm and an ...
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... Traherne's Tamburlaine - like exultation in the mind's powers . ' Insatiability is good , but not ingratitude ' ; only when we value the world aright as the work of the Creator and return praise for it to him do we fulfil our natures ...
... Traherne's Tamburlaine - like exultation in the mind's powers . ' Insatiability is good , but not ingratitude ' ; only when we value the world aright as the work of the Creator and return praise for it to him do we fulfil our natures ...
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PREFACE | 7 |
TWO ANGLICAN POETS | 22 |
MARLOWES HEROES | 54 |
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Adam and Eve Adam's angels artists Barabas Baroque 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 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 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 reason reintegration religious poets Renaissance Samson Satan sense seventeenth seventeenth-century Silex Scintillans Sonnets soul spirit stanza suggest Sunne symbol Tamburlaine thee theme theocentric things Thomas Vaughan thou thought tion Tractarians tragedy Traherne true verse words writings