Baroque Europe

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Armond
Keyword(s):  
John Donne ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
Baruch Spinoza ◽  
Andrew Marvell ◽  
Richard Crashaw ◽  
Metaphysical Poetry ◽  
Evolutionary Science ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Henry Vaughan

This chapter aims to offer an overview of those resurgences of the baroque that are most significant for my study – Germany’s rediscovery of the Trauerspiel and allegory, the colourful legacy of the Italian commedia dell ‘arte and the monist philosophy of Baruch Spinoza that informs Ernst Haeckel’s evolutionary science at the turn of the century. Anglo-American modernism’s debt to the baroque has already been discussed in some detail in the context of English metaphysical poetry, and this interest stemmed from T. S. Eliot’s essay ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ (1921). The essay is a review of Herbert J. C. Grierson’s anthology Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler (1921), and between them the two works were responsible for a reappraisal of the poetry of John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan and Abraham Cowley during the 1920’s and 1930s.

The Metaphysical Canon in Poetry: on Cristina Campo’s Translation Activity

Tekstualia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 151-158
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Ślarzyńska
Keyword(s):  
John Donne ◽  
William Carlos Williams ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
Richard Crashaw ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Translational Activity ◽  
Henry Vaughan

The article focuses on Cristina Campo’s poetry translations in the context of her literary choices infl uenced by her predilection to metaphysical literature. The category of metaphysical literature can be understood, fi rst of all, as related to metaphysical English poets like John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, and Henry Vaughan. Metaphysical were also those authors whose writings defi ed the categories of space and time, and transcended the temporal and geographical limits. One of the greatest Campo’s fascinations from that perspective was the poetry of William Carlos Williams, as well as other authors that entered in her category of imperdonabili. Campo’s translational activity followed a well-delineated path related strictly to her metaphysical inclinations and manifested certain traits of the tendency to establish the personalized canon of real and worthwhile literature that at the same time opposed the mainstream literary choices of that time

scholarly journals The Use of Geometric Conceits in Exposition of Love in Metaphysical Poetry

IIUC Studies ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Md Eftekhar Uddin
Keyword(s):  
John Donne ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Andrew Marvell ◽  
Metaphysical Poetry ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Straight Line ◽  
Circular Line

The language, used by Metaphysical poets is highly evocative and infused with multi-dimensional meaning. It demands comprehension and sensitivity on the part of the reader to grasp out the inner aspect of a poem. Love, being a universal feeling gets expression through the hands of different poets in different ways. The exposition of love in Metaphysical poems has shaped up in a unique way because of the juxtaposition of geometry in it. Straight line and circular line are the two components of geometry. Straight line being regarded as imperfect one as it has no limit and end is used as a vehicle to convey the imperfection of love in Metaphysical poems. On the other hand, circular line, being treated as a perfect one is used to express a harmonious union of love between human beings and also between God and human being. The article aims at exploring such conflation of love with geometry in the poetic works of John Donne, Henry Vaughn, Andrew Marvell and George Herbert, the four major Metaphysical Poets. doi: 10.3329/iiucs.v3i0.2663   IIUC STUDIES Vol. - 3, December 2006 (p 31-44)

Using Religious Poetry of the Seventeenth Century to Start Environmental Conversations in Protestant College Classrooms

2020 ◽  
pp. 073989132091860
Author(s):  
Hogan D. Schaak
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
John Donne ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
Religious Poetry ◽  
Andrew Marvell ◽  
College Classrooms ◽  
English Classrooms

In this paper it is argued that Christian poetry of the seventeenth century, specifically that of John Donne, George Herbert, and Andrew Marvell can be used in the English classrooms of Protestant colleges in order to introduce students studying Bible and theology to the notion that theology can and should be environmentally minded.

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