Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England

by Jane Partner

Book Overview

This book reveals the ways in which seventeenth-century poets used models of vision taken from philosophy, theology, scientific optics, political polemic and the visual arts to scrutinize the nature of individual perceptions and to examine poetry's own relation to truth. Drawing on archival research, Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England brings together an innovative selection of texts and images to construct a new interdisciplinary context for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319710168
• ISBN13: 9783319710167
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.5"