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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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Print version record |
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Lucretius Carus, Titus -- Influence
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Lucretius Carus, Titus -- Criticism and interpretation
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Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura. Liber 4.
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SUBJECT |
Lucretius Carus, Titus fast |
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De rerum natura (Lucretius Carus, Titus) fast |
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European poetry -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
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European poetry -- 17th century -- History and criticism
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Poetics -- History -- 16th century
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Poetics -- History -- 17th century
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Love poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
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Erotic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance
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Erotic poetry, Latin
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European poetry
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European poetry -- Renaissance
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Love poetry, Latin
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Poetics
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Electronic books
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Literary criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780812297706 |
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0812297709 |
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