226 Pages
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Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1964, Renaissance & Seventeenth - Century Studies contains essays which fall into two groups. The first four are concerned with problems of metaphor and style and treat two important eras in literary history when these problems underwent critical re-examination. St. Augustine marks the classical attempt to take account of "biblical poetics" while the two essays on the... Read more
Preface Acknowledgements 1. St. Augustine’s Rhetoric of Silence: Truth vs Eloquence and Things vs Signs 2. A Seventeenth- Century Theory of Metaphysical Poetry 3. Metaphysical Poetry and The Poetic of Correspondence 4. Notes on John Donne’s Alchemical Imagery 5. Hell vs Hell: From Dante to Machiavelli 6. Machiavelli: The Effective Reality of Things 7. Machiavelli: The Artist as Statesman 8. Cromwell as Machiavellian Prince in Marvell’s ‘An Horatian Ode’ 9. Cromwell as Davidic King Index
Biography
Joseph Anthony Mazzeo
