Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9783319710167 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 334 str.

Jane Partner

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Jane Partner studied English Literature at the University of Cambridge and Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK. She is now a Fellow at Trinity Hall in Cambridge, UK, where she teaches a range of literary and art-historical subjects.