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The author convincingly shows that writers of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in England wrote with a lively and creative sense of the visual—a sense richly informed by the theory and practice of Renaissance art.

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Visual Art in the New Arcadia
  • 2. Donne, Jonson, and the Priority of Picture
  • 3. Thomas Carew’s “A Rapture” and Lord Herbert’s “To his Mistress for her true Picture”: Poetic Invention on Pictorial Themes
  • 4. Richard Crashaw: The “Holy Strife” of Pencil and Pen
  • 5. Richard Lovelace, Edmund Waller, and the Flowering of English Art
  • 6. Herrick’s Hesperidean Garden: Ut pictura poesis Applied
  • 7. Lady Drury’s Oratory: The Painted Closet from Hawstead Hall
  • Notes
  • Index

Poets and the Visual Arts in Renaissance England

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      Publisher University of Texas Press
      Published 1 February 1984
      ISBN-13 9780292744400
      978-0292744400
      ISBN-10 0292744404
      Also in:
      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The author convincingly shows that writers of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in England wrote with a lively and creative sense of the visual—a sense richly informed by the theory and practice of Renaissance art.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Acknowledgments
      • 1. Visual Art in the New Arcadia
      • 2. Donne, Jonson, and the Priority of Picture
      • 3. Thomas Carew’s “A Rapture” and Lord Herbert’s “To his Mistress for her true Picture”: Poetic Invention on Pictorial Themes
      • 4. Richard Crashaw: The “Holy Strife” of Pencil and Pen
      • 5. Richard Lovelace, Edmund Waller, and the Flowering of English Art
      • 6. Herrick’s Hesperidean Garden: Ut pictura poesis Applied
      • 7. Lady Drury’s Oratory: The Painted Closet from Hawstead Hall
      • Notes
      • Index

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