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Cambridge University Press Metaphysical Wit

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English metaphysical poetry, from Donne to Marvell, is notoriously witty. In this 1992 book, A. J. Smith seeks the reason for the central importance of wit in the thinking of the metaphysical poets and argues that metaphysical wit is essentially different from other modes of wit current in Renaissance Europe. Formal theories and rhetorics of wit are considered both for their theoretical import and their appraisals of wit in practice. Prevailing fashions of witty invention are scrutinized in Italian, French and Spanish writings, so as to bring out the nature and effect of various forms of wit: conceited, hieroglyphic, transformational and others from which the metaphysical mode is distinguished. He locates the basis of Renaissance wit in the received conception of the created order and a theory of literary innovation inherent in Humanist belief, which led to novel couplings of time and eternity, body and soul, man and God.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0521340276
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Poetry & Poets
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 09 January 1992
Listed Since: 19 January 2007

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