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Author Hock, Jessie, author.

Title The erotics of materialism : Lucretius and early modern poetics / Jessie Hock
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (234 pages)
Contents Introduction : the supple snare -- 1. Materializing the lyric tradition : Lucretius and the poetry of Pierre de Ronsard -- 2. Poetry in a time of war : Lucretius and poetic patrimony in Pierre de Ronsard's Sonnets pour Helene and Remy Belleau's Pierres précieuses -- 3. "Like gold to aery thinness beat" : John Donne's materialisms -- 4. Lucy Hutchinson and the erotic reception of Lucretius -- 5. Lucretian poetics and women's writing in Margaret Cavendish's Poems and fancies -- Epilogue : this is our Venus
Summary Jessie Hock maps the intersection of poetry and natural philosophy in the early modern reception of Lucretius and his De rerum natura. Focusing on Pierre de Ronsard, Remy Belleau, John Donne, Lucy Hutchinson, and Margaret Cavendish, she demonstrates how these poets read De rerum natura as a treatise on the poetic imagination
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Jessie Hock is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University
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Subject Lucretius Carus, Titus -- Influence
Lucretius Carus, Titus -- Criticism and interpretation
Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura. Liber 4.
SUBJECT Lucretius Carus, Titus fast
De rerum natura (Lucretius Carus, Titus) fast
Subject European poetry -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
European poetry -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Poetics -- History -- 16th century
Poetics -- History -- 17th century
Love poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
Erotic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance
Erotic poetry, Latin
European poetry
European poetry -- Renaissance
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Love poetry, Latin
Poetics
Genre/Form Electronic books
Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812297706
0812297709