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Poetry and Humanism (Paperback, New Ed)
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Poetry and Humanism (Paperback, New Ed)
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List price R621
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Discovery Miles 5 590
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The seventeenth-century poets are almost without exception men of
the world: their poetry is full of sensuous, scientific, and
mundane images. But they are also religious men, fully aware of
man's paradoxical situation between Heaven and earth. What these
poets accomplish, Professor Mahood shows here, is a reintegration
of the strands of humanism, a conscious re-orientation that
restores the balance between God, man, and nature. In interlocking
chapters, the author discusses Herbert's poetry, Donne's poems and
sermons, Milton's epics, Marlowe's tragic heroes, and Vaughan's
"symphony of nature." She shows how each of these writers struggled
in his own way with the question of freedom and the concept of the
hero, dealing with the growing tensions between eternity and time,
spirit and sense. Through a close reading of their ideas and
imagery, she explores their unique achievement: the synthesis of
the medieval world-view and the discoveries of the Renaissance.
Poetry and Humanism is a book, the Times Literary Supplement says,
that is "always stimulating and often wise, and makes valuable
comment not only on the thought of the seventeenth century but on
that of our own."
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