The Form of Love : : Poetry’s Quarrel with Philosophy / / James Kuzner.
Can poetry articulate something about love that philosophy cannot? The Form of Love argues that it can. In close readings of seven “metaphysical” poems, the book shows how poets of the early modern period and beyond use poetic form to turn philosophy to other ends, in order not to represent the trut...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Form of Love Poetry, Philosophy, and the Closeness of Loving Reading
- 1. Disjunctive Love: Philosophical Project and Poetic Experience in Donne’s “Th e Ecstasy”
- 2. Obscure Love: Virtual Masochisms in Philips’s “Friendship’s Mysterys”
- 3. Forgetting to Love: Problems of Praise in Herbert’s “Th e Flower”
- 4. Loving Rhyme: Reading Mastery in Crashaw’s “Th e Flaming Heart”
- 5. Green Love: Lost in Marvell’s “Th e Garden”
- 6. Love and/or Lyric: Dickinson’s “I cannot live with You -”
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index