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  1. Lyric Wonder
    Rhetoric and Wit in Renaissance English Poetry
    Published: [2019]; © 1997
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style-metaphysical wit and strong lines-as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the search... more

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    James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style-metaphysical wit and strong lines-as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the search for strange artifacts and animals to display in the wonder-cabinets of the period.By embracing the genres of satire and epigram, poets of the Elizabethan court risked their chances for political advancement, exposing themselves to the danger of being classified either as malcontents or as jesters who lacked the gravitas required of those in power. John Donne himself recognized both the risks and benefits of adopting the'admirable'style, as Biester shows in his close readings of the First and Fourth Satyres.Why did courtier-poets adopt such a dangerous form of self-representation? The answer, Biester maintains, lies in an extraordinary confluence of developments in both poetics and the interpenetrating spheres of the culture at large, which made the pursuit of wonder through style unusually attractive, even necessary. In a postfeudal but still aristocratic culture, he says, the ability to astound through language performed the validating function that was once supplied by the ability to fight. Combining the insights of the new historicism with traditional literary scholarship, Biester perceives the rise of metaphysical style as a social as well as aesthetic event

     

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781501741272
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    Series: Rhetoric and Society
    Subjects: Poetry & Criticism; POETRY / Medieval; English language; English poetry; English wit and humor; Renaissance; Rhetoric, Renaissance; Poetik; Concetto; Lyrik; Renaissance; Metaphysical poets; Englisch; Rhetorik
    Scope: 1 online resource (240 pages)
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  2. English lyric poetry
    the early seventeenth century
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Routledge, London

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0203006313; 041502949X
    Subjects: English poetry; Lyrik; Metaphysical poets; Englisch
    Scope: xvii, 323 p.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  3. Milton, the metaphysicals, and romanticism
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

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  4. Metaphysical shadows
    the persistence of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell in contemporary poetry
    Published: [2022]; © 2022
    Publisher:  Lexington Books, Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London

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  5. An introduction to the metaphysical poets
    Published: 1972
    Publisher:  Macmillan, London

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0333136675
    Subjects: English poetry; Metaphysics in literature; Lyrik; Lyrik; Lyrik; Englisch; Metaphysical poets; Vaugham, Henry
    Other subjects: Donne, John (1572-1631); Herbert, George (1593-1633); Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
    Scope: 115 S.
  6. The visual in metaphysical poetry
    Published: 1981

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    Subjects: Bildersprache; Metaphysical poets; Englisch; Lyrik
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  7. Using alchemical memory techniques for the interpretation of literature
    John Donne, George Herbert and Richard Crashaw
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Mellen, Lewiston, NY [u.a.]

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  8. English Renaissance literature and contemporary theory
    sublime objects of theology
    Author: Cefalu, Paul
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York [u.a.]

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  9. The Cambridge companion to English poetry
    Donne to Marvell
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge u.a.

    Poetry of the early seventeenth century set in its cultural and ideological context. more

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    Poetry of the early seventeenth century set in its cultural and ideological context.

     

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0521411475; 0521423090
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    RVK Categories: HI 1220 ; HK 1150
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Cambridge companions to literature
    Subjects: English poetry; Lyrik; Versdichtung; Metaphysical poets; Englisch
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  10. The age of the metaphysicals
    Published: 1978
    Publisher:  Blackie, Glasgow [u.a.]

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 021690563X
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    Series: Authors in their age.
    Subjects: English poetry; Lyrik; Englisch; Zeithintergrund; Metaphysical poets
    Scope: 140 S., Ill.
  11. Discordia concors
    The wit of metaphysical poetry
    Published: 1975
    Publisher:  Kennikat pr., Port Washington, N.Y.

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0804690898
    RVK Categories: HI 1198
    Series: National University Publications.Literary criticism series.
    Subjects: English poetry; Metaphysics in literature; Metaphysical poets; Englisch; Lyrik
    Scope: X, 166 S., Ill.
  12. The shadow of eternity
    belief and structure in Herbert, Vaughan and Traherne
    Published: 1981
    Publisher:  Univ. Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

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  13. The metaphysical poets
    Published: 1988
    Publisher:  York Press, Harlow

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    ISBN: 0582966035
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    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: York handbooks
    Subjects: English poetry; Metaphysical poets
    Other subjects: Donne, John <1572-1631>
    Scope: 166 S.
  14. A reader's guide to the metaphysical poets
    John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Abraham Cowley, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell
    Published: 1968
    Publisher:  Thames and Hudson, London

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    RVK Categories: HI 1198
    Subjects: English poetry; Metaphysics in literature; Englisch; Metaphysical poets; Lyrik
    Scope: 274 S.
  15. Four metaphysical poets
    Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw
    Published: 1953
    Publisher:  Univ. Pr., Cambridge

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    RVK Categories: HI 1198 ; HK 1150
    Edition: 2. ed.
    Subjects: English poetry; Metaphysical poets
    Other subjects: Crashaw, Richard <1613?-1649>; Donne, John <1572-1631>; Herbert, George <1593-1633>; Vaughan, Henry <1622-1695>; Crashaw, Richard (1613-1649); Vaughan, Henry (1622-1695); Donne, John (1572-1631); Herbert, George (1593-1633)
    Scope: VIIII, 126 S.
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    3.Aufl.u.d.T.: Bennett, Joan: Five metaphysical poets

  16. The visual in metaphysical poetry
    Published: 1981
    Publisher:  Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, NJ

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    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0391022997
    RVK Categories: HI 1198
    Edition: 1. publ. in the United States of America
    Subjects: Beeldspraak; Gedichten; Kennistheorie; Metafysische kunst; Erkenntnistheorie; Geschichte; Lyrik; Emblems; English poetry; Figures of speech; Metaphysics in literature; Visual poetry, English; Englisch; Lyrik; Bildersprache; Metaphysical poets
    Scope: 110 S.
  17. Systrophe
    The background of Herbert's sonnet Prayer
    Published: 1981
    Publisher:  Lang, Berne

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    Media type: Dissertation
    ISBN: 3261048255
    RVK Categories: HI 1198 ; HK 2335
    Series: Europäische Hochschulschriften. 14. ; 87.
    Subjects: Métaphore; Metaphor; Metaphysical poets
    Other subjects: Herbert, George <1593-1633> - Critique et interprétation; Herbert, George <1593-1633>: Prayer I; Herbert, George (1593-1633)
    Scope: 241 S.
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    Zugl.: Univ., Diss.

  18. Three metaphysical poets
    Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne
    Published: 1961
    Publisher:  Longmans, Green, London

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    RVK Categories: HI 1198
    Series: Writers and their work. ; 134.
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets
    Other subjects: Crashaw, Richard <1613?-1649>; Traherne, Thomas <1637-1674>; Vaughan, Henry <1621-1695>; Vaughan, Henry (1622-1695); Traherne, Thomas (1637-1674); Crashaw, Richard (1613-1649)
    Scope: 48 S.
  19. The revival of metaphysical poetry
    The history of a style, 1800 to the present
    Published: 1969
    Publisher:  Octagon Books, New York

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    RVK Categories: HI 1198
    Subjects: Poésie américaine - Histoire et critique; Poésie anglaise - Histoire et critique; American poetry; English poetry; Metaphysics in literature; Rezeption; Metaphysical poets
    Scope: 227 S.
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    Repr.d.Ausg.Minneapolis 1959

  20. Five metaphysical poets
    Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw, Marvell
    Published: 1966
    Publisher:  Univ. Press, Cambridge

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  21. The metaphysical novel in England
    the romantic phase
    Published: 1980
    Publisher:  Arno Press, New York

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0405126565
    RVK Categories: HG 674
    Series: Gothic studies and dissertations.
    Subjects: English fiction; Gothic revival (Literature); Horror tales, English; Metaphysics in literature; Philosophy in literature; Romanticism; Roman; Metaphysical poets; Gothic novel; Englisch
    Scope: 315 S.
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    Zugl: Rochester, NY, Univ., Diss. 1971

  22. The age of the metaphysicals
    Published: 1978
    Publisher:  Blackie, London

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    ISBN: 021690563X
    RVK Categories: HI 1198 ; HI 1249
    Series: Authors in their age.
    Subjects: English poetry; Lyrik; Zeithintergrund; Metaphysical poets; Englisch
    Scope: 140 S., Ill.
  23. Language recreated
    seventeenth-century metaphorists and the act of metaphor
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Univ. of Georgia Pr., Athens u.a.

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    ISBN: 0820313610
    RVK Categories: EC 3765 ; HI 1198 ; HK 1067 ; HK 1150 ; HK 1181
    Subjects: Englisch; Geschichte; Aesthetics, Modern; English language; English poetry; Metaphor; Poetics; Lyrik; Englisch; Metaphysical poets; Metapher
    Scope: 294 S.
  24. The revival of metaphysical poetry
    the history of a style, 1800 to the present
    Published: 1959
    Publisher:  Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

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    Subjects: English poetry; American poetry; Metaphysics in literature; Rezeption; Metaphysical poets
    Scope: 227 S.
  25. Donne's poetry and modern criticism
    Published: 1962
    Publisher:  Russell & Russell, New York

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    ISBN: 0846202875
    RVK Categories: HI 1915
    Subjects: Geschichte; Metaphysical poets
    Other subjects: Donne, John <1572-1631>; Donne, John <1572-1631> - Critique et interprétation; Donne, John <1572-1631>; Donne, John (1572-1631)
    Scope: XII, 91 S.