Renaissance & Seventeenth - Century Studies

List of contents

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

About the author

Joseph Anthony Mazzeo

Summary

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 the second group of essays are, in general, concerned with Machiavelli and Machiavellism and Andrew Marvell.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Anthony Mazzeo, Mazzeo Joseph Anthony
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781032120874
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3212087-4
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, Philosophy, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy