Magical Imaginations : : Instrumental Aesthetics in the English Renaissance / / Genevieve Guenther.
In the English Renaissance, poetry was imagined to inspire moral behaviour in its readers, but the efficacy of poetry was also linked to 'conjuration,' the theologically dangerous practice of invoking spirits with words. Magical Imaginations explores how major writers of the period - inclu...
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