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Metaphysical wit
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ISBN: 0521340276 0521035295 0511553390 9780521340274 9780511553394 9780521035293 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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English metaphysical poetry, from Donne to Marvell, is notoriously witty. In this 1992 book, A. J. Smith seeks the reason for the central importance of wit in the thinking of the metaphysical poets and argues that metaphysical wit is essentially different from other modes of wit current in Renaissance Europe. Formal theories and rhetorics of wit are considered both for their theoretical import and their appraisals of wit in practice. Prevailing fashions of witty invention are scrutinized in Italian, French and Spanish writings, so as to bring out the nature and effect of various forms of wit: conceited, hieroglyphic, transformational and others from which the metaphysical mode is distinguished. He locates the basis of Renaissance wit in the received conception of the created order and a theory of literary innovation inherent in Humanist belief, which led to novel couplings of time and eternity, body and soul, man and God.


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John Donne : the songs and sonets
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ISBN: 0713150858 9780713150858 Year: 1979 Volume: 17 Publisher: London: Edward Arnold,

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John Donne : the songs and sonets
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Year: 1964 Publisher: London: Edward Arnold,

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John Donne: the Songs and sonets
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Year: 1966 Publisher: London : E. Arnold,

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The complete English poems
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Year: 1981 Publisher: Harmondsworth: Penguin books,

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English poetry


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The complete English poems
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Year: 1973 Publisher: Harmondsworth Penguin

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Short story study : a critical anthology
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Year: 1963 Publisher: London : Edward Arnold,

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