The Metaphysics of Love

Klappentext This book is an important study on European and Renaissance love poetry from Dante to Milton. Zusammenfassung This book is an important study of European and Renaissance love poetry from Dante to Milton and how each poet in this study explores the conflict between sensual and spiritual love. The author presents a wide-ranging account of the evolution of ideas of love from the twelfth to the seventeenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Preamble: The lineage of love; 1. Sense and innocencesm; 2. Against mortality; 3. Body and soul; 4. Among the wastes of time: seventeenth-century love poetry, and the failure of love; 5. Through nature to eternity: Vaughan's Silex Scintillans; 6. Humanity vindicated: Milton's pattern of heroic love; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Smith Albert James, A. J. Smith, A.J. Smith, Albert James Smith, Smith Albert James
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.12.2009
• EAN: 9780521128599
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12859-9
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets