Download or read book Song and sonnets Canzoni e sonetti written by John Donne and published by Luigi Pellegrini Editore. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Donne, uno dei massimi poeti inglesi, visse tra la seconda metà del XVI secolo e la prima metà del XVII secolo: epoca di grandi fermenti e di intensi scambi. È un poeta che esprime, meglio di tanti altri, le tensioni della sua età e l’esigenza di allungare lo sguardo sulla vita, la cultura e la letteratura del Continente europeo, in particolare, dell’Italia, della Francia e della Spagna, paesi visitati dal poeta. John Donne, che non aveva reciso del tutto le radici medioevali, avvertì, inevitabilmente, gli effetti dell’impatto col pensiero scientifico e critico della nuova cultura rinascimentale, profondamente segnata dal naturalismo telesiano, dal De Revolutionibus Orbium coelestium (1543), in cui Niccolò Copernico propone il sistema eliocentrico, in opposizione a quello geocentrico di Tolomeo e, nel campo della ricerca filosofica, dall’empirismo, teorizzato da Francis Bacon nel suo Novum Organum del 1621, che afferma l’importanza, ai fini della conoscenza, della percezione sensoriale, vagliate dalla critica dell’intelletto. Punto terminale di tale processo è il razionalismo di Descartes (XVII secolo), che afferma la funzione del pensiero come attività. zIl XVII secolo, in cui forti sono ancora la coscienza e la cultura medievali, è un periodo nevralgico per la storia della civiltà inglese: il passaggio all’età moderna non è più procrastinabile. Nel campo della poesia è, appunto, John Donne che rompe, definitivamente, gli argini, accostando la Fede a certe verità obiettive, ad esempio, all’amore. Tale scelta fa emergere il conflitto tra passione e ragione, certamente, motivo di turbamento della coscienza dell’individuo; ma, d’altro canto, come si fa a pensare alla vita, prescindendo dall’amore e dalla passione, che sono verità connaturali all’essere? E John Donne, esaltando e valorizzando quest’ultima connotazione, risolve il dissidio a suo modo e, perciò, intreccia i temi dello spirito e dei sensi, e lo fa con assoluta naturalezza e senza reticenze. Lo spirito del Medioevo non si è, però, ancora spento, e il poeta si rende conto che certe questioni possono toccare la suscettibilità dell’individuo e, perciò, egli affronta tali argomenti con sincerità e chiarezza, ma da poeta autentico ed esperto, ricorre, con grande perizia, ad una pedagogia molto efficace, che non disdegna l’uso di strumenti di notevole effetto e suggestione, consolidati, ormai, nella poesia, come l’emblematismo, la similitudine, l’allegoria, la metafora. E l’esito è, in molti casi, straordinario, tale da garantire a John Donne un posto di assoluto preminenza nella letteratura non solo inglese.
Download or read book The Song of Troilus written by Thomas C. Stillinger and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Song of Troilus traces the origins of modern authorship in the formal experimentation of medieval writers. Thomas C. Stillinger analyzes a sequence of narrative books that are in some way constructed around lyric poems: Dante's Vita Nuova, Bocaccio's Filostrato, and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. The shared aim of these texts, he argues, is to imagine and achieve an unprecedented auctoritas: a "lyric authority" that combines the expressive subjectivity of courtly love poetry with the impersonal authority of Biblical commentary. Each of the three establishes its own formal and intertextual dynamics; in complex and unexpected ways, the hierarchies of Latin learning are charged with erotic force, allowing the creation of a new vernacular Book of Love. The Song of Troilus is a linked series of incisive close readings. Each chapter defines and investigates a range of philological, intertextual, and theoretical problems; in addition to explicating his three principal texts, Stillinger offers important insights into a range of medieval traditions, from Psalm commentary to Trojan historiography to Ricardian political satire. At the same time, The Song of Troilus is a sophisticated narrative of cultural change and a searching meditation on history, desire, and writing. The Song of Troilus is an original and highly readable study of three major medieval texts; it will be of compelling interest to students and scholars of medieval literature, and to all those exploring the history of authorship and the implications of literary form.
Download or read book The Songs and Sonnets written by John Donne and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Songs and Sonnets written by John Donne and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne Volume 4 2 written by John Donne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the ninth in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, presents newly edited critical texts of 25 love lyrics. Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which these poems have appeared, Volume 4.2 details the genealogical history of each poem, accompanied by a thorough prose discussion, as well as a General Textual Introduction of the Songs and Sonets collectively. The volume also presents a comprehensive digest of the commentary on these Songs and Sonets from Donne's time through 1999. Arranged chronologically within sections, the material for each poem is organized under various headings that complement the volume's companions, Volume 4.1 and Volume 4.3.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore written by George Peabody Library and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Songs and Sonets written by John Donne and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies written by Gaetana Marrone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 2256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. The Encyclopedia is distinguished by substantial articles on critics, themes, genres, schools, historical surveys, and other topics related to the overall subject of Italian literary studies. The Encyclopedia also includes writers and subjects of contemporary interest, such as those relating to journalism, film, media, children's literature, food and vernacular literatures. Entries consist of an essay on the topic and a bibliographic portion listing works for further reading, and, in the case of entries on individuals, a brief biographical paragraph and list of works by the person. It will be useful to people without specialized knowledge of Italian literature as well as to scholars.
Download or read book Brief Forms in Medieval and Renaissance Hispanic Literature written by Alejandro Coroleu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies gathered in this volume engage in different ways with the ideas of André Jolles (1874–1946), whose Einfache Formen (“Simple Forms”) was first published in 1930. Trained as an anthropologist, Jolles argued that these “simple” forms – Legende (legend), Sage (saga), Mythe (myth), Rätsel (riddle), Spruch (proverb), Kasus (case), Memorabile (memorable action), Märchen (folk or fairy tale) and Witz (joke or witticism) – which had circulated at a very early stage of human culture underlay the more sophisticated genres of literature. Unlike epic or tragedy, many of the simple forms are not theorised in classical rhetoric. The essays presented here focus on their reception in Hispanic culture from the Middle Ages to circa 1650. As such, the book will be of interest to scholars of medieval and early modern Spanish, Catalan and Latin literature. It will also appeal to historians of Humanism as well as scholars working on classical and Renaissance literary theory.
Download or read book Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire written by Mann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1973-06-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to discover the origins and significance of the General Prologue-to the Canterbury Tales. The interest of such an inquiry is many-sided. On the one hand, it throws light on the question of whether `life' or 'literature' was Chaucer's model in this work, on the relationship between Chaucer's twenty-odd pilgrims and the structure of medieval society, and on the role of their `estate' in determining the elements of which Chaucer composes their portraits. On the other hand, it makes suggestions about the ways in which Chaucer convinces us of the individuality of his pilgrims, about the nature of his irony, and the kind of moral standards implicit in the Prologue. This book suggests that Chaucer is ironically substituting for the traditional moral view of social structure a vision of a world where morality becomes as specialised to the individual as his work-life.
Download or read book Speaking Spirits written by Sherry Roush and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In classical and early modern rhetoric, to write or speak using the voice of a dead individual is known as eidolopoeia. Whether through ghost stories, journeys to another world, or dream visions, Renaissance writers frequently used this rhetorical device not only to co-opt the authority of their predecessors but in order to express partisan or politically dangerous arguments. In Speaking Spirits, Sherry Roush presents the first systematic study of early modern Italian eidolopoeia. Expanding the study of Renaissance eidolopoeia beyond the well-known cases of the shades in Dante’s Commedia and the spirits of Boccaccio’s De casibus vivorum illustrium, Roush examines many other appearances of famous ghosts – invocations of Boccaccio by Vincenzo Bagli and Jacopo Caviceo, Girolamo Malipiero’s representation of Petrarch in Limbo, and Girolamo Benivieni’s ghostly voice of Pico della Mirandola. Through close readings of these eidolopoetic texts, she illuminates the important role that this rhetoric played in the literary, legal, and political history of Renaissance Italy.
Download or read book The Sonnet written by Charles Tomlinson and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sonnet written by Charles Tomlinson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore Including the Additions Made Since 1882 written by George Peabody Library and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sonnet Its Origin Structure and Place in Poetry written by Charles Tomlinson and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore written by Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute Library and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
