"This broadranging exploration argues that there was a special preoccupation with the nature and limits of poetry in early modern Spain and Europe, as well as especially vigorous poetic activity in this period. Contrary to what one might read in Hegel, the "prosification" of the world has remained an unfinished affair."--Project Muse
pt. 1. Poiesis on the threshold of modernity -- pt. 2. Case studies : poesia and poiesis -- pt. 3. English and European contexts