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The erotics of materialism : Lucretius and early modern poetics /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hock, Jessie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the supple snare
  • 1. Materializing the lyric tradition : Lucretius and the poetry of Pierre de Ronsard
  • 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
  • 3. "Like gold to aery thinness beat" : John Donne's materialisms
  • 4. Lucy Hutchinson and the erotic reception of Lucretius
  • 5. Lucretian poetics and women's writing in Margaret Cavendish's Poems and fancies
  • Epilogue : this is our Venus.