{"product_id":"metaphysical-shadows-the-persistence-of-donne-herbert-vaughan-and-marvell-in-contemporary-poetry-9781793635433","title":"Metaphysical Shadows: The Persistence of Donne,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMetaphysical Shadows: The Persistence of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell in Contemporary Poetry examines the ways in which the poetry of John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, and Andrew Marvell continues to speak to working poets today. Modern Anglophone poets, from T. S. Eliot and Archibald MacLeish in the 1920s and 1930s to Seamus Heaney, Maureen Boyle, Alfred Corn, Anne Cluysenaar, Kimberly Johnson, and Jericho Brown in the twenty-first century, have found in the work of John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, and Andrew Marvell a strikingly modern intellectualism, an emotional intensity, and a verbal richness that have inspired their own poems. Traces of this inspiration appear in echoes, allusions, direct responses, and similarities in approach and method as poets create new work in their own distinct voices. Such contemporary engagements furnish us with cues for how literary studies might approach the literature of the past without sacrificing it in the name of critique. They also demonstrate the continuing relevance of seventeenth-century English metaphysical poetry in the twenty-first century. The poems of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell still have the power to cast shadows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Note to the Reader\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMetaphysical Shadows: An Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I. Varieties of Shadows\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: Echo and Allusion: “The Extasie” Behind Seamus Heaney’s “Chanson d’Aventure”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: The Answer Poem: Anne Donne on the Isle of Wight\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Shared Subjects: Andrew Marvell, Archibald MacLeish, and Brendan Kennelly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: Modal Resemblances: “Metaphysical,” “Meditative,” and the Poetry of Donne, W. B. Yeats, and Ronald Johnson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II. Late 20th— and Early 21st—Century Shadows\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: What Did Suffice: Scintillas of Vaughan in the Poetry of Anne Cluysenaar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: Donne, Heaney, and the Boldness of Love\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: The Depth of Herbert’s Voiceprint in the Poetry of Alfred Corn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: Verbal Relish in the Poetry of Donne and Kimberly Johnson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Nine: The Tradition and the Individual Talent: Jericho Brown and the Donnean Note\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShadow Instruction: An Afterward\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042669658455,"sku":"9781793635433","price":69.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793635433.jpg?v=1750955105","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/metaphysical-shadows-the-persistence-of-donne-herbert-vaughan-and-marvell-in-contemporary-poetry-9781793635433","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}