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Author Banks, Kathryn

Title Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance : French Love Lyric and Natural-philosophical Poetry
Published Leeds : Taylor and Francis, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (230 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on References; INTRODUCTION: THE COSMOS, IMAGES, AND POETRY; PART I: THE COSMOS IN DU BARTAS'S SEPMAINE: IMAGES OF GOD AND OF WAR; Introduction; Notes; 1 Poetry and Theology: Images of the Divine; Ontological Images of the Divine; Poetic Images of the Divine; Notes to Chapter 1; 2 Poetry and Natural Philosophy: Images of the Cosmic; Cosmic War And The Wars Of Religion; The Societal, the Cosmic, and the Divine; Conclusion; Notes to Chapter 2; PART II: IMAGES, DIVINITY, AND DIFFERENCE IN MAURICE SCÈVE'S DÉLIE
IntroductionLove Lyric: Images, Reference, and Fiction; Comparisons with Neoplatonist and Evangélique Texts; Terminology; Notes; 3 Illumination and Darkness: The Lunar, Solar, and Divine Lady; Moons and 'Mixed' Love; The je: Difference from the Lady and from the Divine; Cosmic Dissolution; Notes to Chapter 3; 4 Redemption and Rejection: Love Lyric and the Unloving Divine; The Poetry of Marguerite and Scève: Opposition, Progression and Paradox; The Délie and Marguerite's Letters: Paradoxical Opposites and Love; Human Inferiority and Unloving Superiors; Notes to Chapter 4; Conclusion
CONCLUSIONReading Images of the Cosmic, the Human and the Divine; Du Bartas's 'Sepmaine'; Scève's 'Délie'; Sixteenth-Century Poetic Images; The role of images; The conception of images; Histories of the Cosmic, the Human, and the Divine; Notes to the Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary texts; Secondary texts; Index
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Subject Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590. Sepmaine.
Scève, Maurice, active 16th century. Delie
SUBJECT Délie (Scève, Maurice) fast
Sepmaine (Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur) fast
Subject French poetry -- 16th century -- History and criticism
French poetry
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Banks, Russell
ISBN 9781351570916
1351570919