Triumphal Forms: Structural Patterns in Elizabethan Poetry

by Alastair Fowler

Book Overview

A study of numerology in Elizabethan poetry, with some background studies which base the subject in classical learning, the works of Dante and Petrarch, and the esoteric traditions of the humanists. The central assumption of numerological criticism is that there exist works written in this tradition which show a correspondence between structure and meaning on a numerical plane; that is, one in which the number of the constituent parts (lines, stanzas,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052112896X
• ISBN13: 9780521128964
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"