Title The atom in seventeenth-century poetry / Cassandra Gorman

Published Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, [2021] ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 258 pages) Series Studies in Renaissance literature ; volume 39 Studies in Renaissance literature ; 39. Contents Acknowledgements; Conventions and Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Atomic Congruity: The Philosophical Poetry of Henry More; 2. Thomas Traherne's Atoms, Souls and Poems; 3. World-Making and World-Breaking: The Atom Poems of Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter; 4. The Atom in Genesis: Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder ; Afterword: A Poetics of the Atom Summary An investigation into the remarkable poetics of the atom in English literary texts from the mid- to late-seventeenth century Notes 1. Atomic Congruity: The Philosophical Poetry of Henry More -- 2. Thomas Traherne's Atoms, Souls and Poems -- 3. World-Making and World-Breaking: The Atom Poems of Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter -- 4. The Atom in Genesis: Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder -- Afterword: A Poetics of the Atom Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 01, 2021) Subject English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Literature and science -- 17th century Atoms -- Poetry Physics in literature. History of science. SCIENCE / History. Literature and science Atoms English poetry -- Early modern Physics in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Poetry Form Electronic book ISBN 1800101716 9781787447844 1787447847 9781800101715

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