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Robert Ellrodt's study of seven poets--springing from his wide-ranging three-volume work, Les Poètes métaphysiques anglais--challenges the postmodernist assumption that no definite or constant self can be traced in the works of a writer. Distinct modes of self-awareness, different emphases in the perception of time and space, and various ways of grasping the sensible and the spiritual, the human and the divine, jointly or separately characterize the minds of Donne and George Herbert, Crashaw and Vaughan, Lord Herbert, Marvell, and Traherne. Fundamental mental structures affect their attitudes to love, death, and God, and dictate their privileged modes of composition and expression.
Without neglecting the relations between these individual traits and the general evolution of thought from classical antiquity to the Renaissance, or the immediate cultural environment in which each poet wrote, this critical study maintains the primacy of individual choice, of the "unchanging self." The book is not based on a theory, but on a close scrutiny of the characteristic interplay of personal modes of thought and sensibility.
Without neglecting the relations between these individual traits and the general evolution of thought from classical antiquity to the Renaissance, or the immediate cultural environment in which each poet wrote, this critical study maintains the primacy of individual choice, of the "unchanging self." The book is not based on a theory, but on a close scrutiny of the characteristic interplay of personal modes of thought and sensibility.
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`Ellrodt shows in fascinating detail how pre-echoes of what would become the principal problem of Cartesian philosophy, the action of mind upon body, can be traced earlier, in the metaphysical poets.'
Anthony D. Nuttal
`Ellrodt builds on his extensive earlier scholarly studies while continuing to add insights into this group of major poets. ...an essential statement of a major point of view.'
J.R. Buchert, Choice, May 2001.
Anthony D. Nuttal
`Ellrodt builds on his extensive earlier scholarly studies while continuing to add insights into this group of major poets. ...an essential statement of a major point of view.'
J.R. Buchert, Choice, May 2001.
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