The Reinvention Of Love: Poetry, Politics And Culture From Sidney To Milton (PDF)
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- Synopsis
- In The Reinvention of Love Anthony Low argues that cultural, economic and political change transformed the way poets from Sidney to Milton thought and wrote about love. Examining the interface between social, political and economic practices and individual psyches, as reflected in literary texts, Professor Low illuminates the connections between material circumstances, perceptions, and ideals. Through detailed readings of the work of Sidney, Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Carew, and Milton, he shows how from the late sixteenth century poets struggled to replace the older Petrarchan tradition with a form of love in harmony with a changing world, and to reconcile human love and sacred devotion. Donne fled the social world; Carew made new accommodations with it; Milton revised it. For Milton, sacred love, cut off from communal norms, verges on hatred, while married love takes on the burden of assuaging loneliness in a threatening world. Author noted Renaissance scholar, chairman of New York University's prestigious English department Study of love in Renaissance poetry is topic of current interest Scholarly yet jargon-free consideration of the relationship between love and changing social circumstances Read more at http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/literature/renaissance-and-early-modern-literature/reinvention-love-poetry-politics-and-culture-sidney-milton#CP0PDOD1R8ATyMuX.99
- Copyright:
- 1993
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- ISBN-13:
- 9780521450300
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 05/04/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Cambridge University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Politics and Government, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Ian Green
- Proofread By:
- N/A
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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