Voluble soul Thomas Traherne's poetic style and thought.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: WILLMOTT, RICHARD
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [S.l.] : LUTTERWORTH PRESS, 2021.
Temas:
Traherne, Thomas, > -1674 > Criticism and interpretation.
Traherne, Thomas, > -1674.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Book Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • I. Traherne and His Times
  • II. Traherne's Views on Poetry
  • III. Traherne and the Metaphysical Poets: A Preliminary Case Study
  • IV. Christian Belief
  • Chapter 2 Poems of Felicity (1) and St Augustine's Confessions: Sight and Sin
  • I. Personal Confession
  • II. Sight, Memory and the Soul
  • III. Temptation
  • IV. The Dangers of Sight
  • V. Innocence and Original Sin
  • Chapter 3 Poems of Felicity (2): Paradise and Vision
  • I. The Garden of Eden
  • II. Inner Sight
  • III. Postscript: From 'Things to Thoughts', a Question of Style
  • Chapter 4 The Dobell Poems (1)
  • I. Influence of the Psalms
  • II. Innocence
  • III. Infancy and Original Sin
  • IV. 'Capacity' in Traherne and John Davies of Hereford
  • Chapter 5 The Dobell Poems (2)
  • I. The Soul: Traherne and Sir John Davies' Nosce Teipsum
  • II. The Soul as Eye
  • III. The 'Temple of Eternity': 'An Hymn upon St Bartholomew's Day'
  • IV. The Voluble Soul
  • V. 'Love' and 'Goodness'
  • Chapter 6 The Ceremonial Law and Other Seventeenth-Century Treatments of Genesis: Atonement, Sacrifi cial Love and Spiritual Food
  • I. Didactic Religious Verse of the Seventeenth-Century
  • II. The Ceremonial Law: Atonement
  • Chapter 7 Thanksgivings
  • Chapter 8 Poems from Commentaries of Heaven (1)
  • I. 'Abhorrence'
  • II. 'Abundance'
  • III. 'Adultery', 'An Advocate', 'Affairs'
  • IV. Microscopes and Telescopes: 'Ant' and 'Astronomy'
  • Chapter 9 Poems from Commentaries of Heaven (2): Lucretius, Atomism and Traherne's 'Prosaic Poetry'
  • I. Reactions to Atomism in Seventeenth-Century Poetry
  • II. Two Major Responses in Poetry to Epicurean Philosophy: Milton and More
  • III. Traherne's Poetry on the Atom
  • IV. Conclusion: The Golden Clasp
  • Appendix Brief Biographical Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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