Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance: French Love Lyric and Natural-philosophical Poetry

by Kathryn Banks

Overview

This book examines depictions of the cosmos in natural-philosophical poetry and love lyric in the Renaissance. It argues that some poetic presentations of the cosmos offer particular insight into possible conceptions of it, precisely because of the generically specific ways in which it is explored.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367602383
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kathryn Banks is Lecturer in French at Durham University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Cosmos, Images, and Poetry Part I: The Cosmos in Du Bartas’s Sepmaine: Images of God and of War 1. Poetry and Theology: Images of the Divine 2. Poetry and Natural Philosophy: Images of the Cosmic Part II: Images, Divinity, and Difference in Maurice Scève’S Délie 3. Illumination and Darkness: The Lunar, Solar, and Divine Lady 4. Redemption and Rejection: Love Lyric and the Unloving Divine 5. Conclusion