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Metaphysical Wit (Hardcover, New)
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Metaphysical Wit (Hardcover, New)
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English metaphysical poetry, from Donne to Marvell, is notoriously
witty. A. J. Smith seeks the reason for the central importance of
wit in the thinking of the metaphysical poets, and argues that
metaphysical wit is essentially different from other modes of wit
current in Renaissance Europe. Formal theories and rhetorics of wit
are considered both for their theoretical import and their
appraisals of wit in practice. Prevailing fashions of witty
invention are scrutinised in Italian, French and Spanish writings,
so as to bring out the nature and effect of various forms of wit:
conceited, hieroglyphic, transformational, and others from which
the metaphysical mode is distinguished. He locates the basis of
Renaissance wit in the received conception of the created order and
a theory of literary innovation inherent in Humanist belief, which
led to novel couplings of time and eternity, body and soul, man and
God. Yet he finds that metaphysical wit distinctively works to
discover a spiritual presence in sensible events; and he traces its
demise in the 1660s to changes in the understanding of the natural
world associated with the rise of empirical science.
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