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A study of numerology in Elizabethan poetry, with some background studies which base the subject in classical learning, the works of Dante and Petrarch, and the esoteric traditions of the humanists. Dr Fowler demonstrates numerology's persistence in the works of Spenser, Sidney, Chapman, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Dryden and others.

Table of Contents
Preface; 1. Evidence; 2. Triumphs; 3. Fictional triumphs; 4. Numerology of the centre; 5. Styles of symmetry; 6. The unity of time; 7. Temporal numbers; 8. Epithalamia; 9. Sonnet sequences; Epilogue: Numerology and the literary artefact; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 2/4/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521128964, 978-0521128964
      ISBN10: 052112896X
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      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A study of numerology in Elizabethan poetry, with some background studies which base the subject in classical learning, the works of Dante and Petrarch, and the esoteric traditions of the humanists. Dr Fowler demonstrates numerology's persistence in the works of Spenser, Sidney, Chapman, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Dryden and others.

      Table of Contents
      Preface; 1. Evidence; 2. Triumphs; 3. Fictional triumphs; 4. Numerology of the centre; 5. Styles of symmetry; 6. The unity of time; 7. Temporal numbers; 8. Epithalamia; 9. Sonnet sequences; Epilogue: Numerology and the literary artefact; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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