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The Erotics of Materialism : Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics
Cover -- The Erotics of Materialism -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. The Supple Snare -- Chapter 1. Materializing the Lyric Tradition: Lucretius and the Poetry of Pierre de Ronsard -- Chapter 2. Poetry in a Time of War: Lucretius and Poetic Patrimony in Pierre de Ronsard's Son...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia
: University of Pennsylvania Press
, 2021
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6406187 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- The Erotics of Materialism -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. The Supple Snare -- Chapter 1. Materializing the Lyric Tradition: Lucretius and the Poetry of Pierre de Ronsard -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 3. "Like gold to aery thinness beat": John Donne's Materialisms -- Chapter 4. Lucy Hutchinson and the Erotic Reception of Lucretius -- Chapter 5. Lucretian Poetics and Women's Writing in Margaret Cavendish's Poems and Fancies -- Epilogue. This Is Our Venus -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (241 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780812297706 |
