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  1. Lyric Wonder
    Rhetoric and Wit in Renaissance English Poetry
    Published: [2019]; © 1997
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style-metaphysical wit and strong lines-as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the search... more

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    James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style-metaphysical wit and strong lines-as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the search for strange artifacts and animals to display in the wonder-cabinets of the period.By embracing the genres of satire and epigram, poets of the Elizabethan court risked their chances for political advancement, exposing themselves to the danger of being classified either as malcontents or as jesters who lacked the gravitas required of those in power. John Donne himself recognized both the risks and benefits of adopting the'admirable'style, as Biester shows in his close readings of the First and Fourth Satyres.Why did courtier-poets adopt such a dangerous form of self-representation? The answer, Biester maintains, lies in an extraordinary confluence of developments in both poetics and the interpenetrating spheres of the culture at large, which made the pursuit of wonder through style unusually attractive, even necessary. In a postfeudal but still aristocratic culture, he says, the ability to astound through language performed the validating function that was once supplied by the ability to fight. Combining the insights of the new historicism with traditional literary scholarship, Biester perceives the rise of metaphysical style as a social as well as aesthetic event

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781501741272
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    Series: Rhetoric and Society
    Subjects: Poetry & Criticism; POETRY / Medieval; English language; English poetry; English wit and humor; Renaissance; Rhetoric, Renaissance; Poetik; Concetto; Lyrik; Renaissance; Metaphysical poets; Englisch; Rhetorik
    Scope: 1 online resource (240 pages)
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  2. Approaches to teaching the metaphysical poets
    Contributor: Gottlieb, Sidney (Hrsg.)
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Modern Language Association of America, New York, NY.

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    Contributor: Gottlieb, Sidney (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0873525299; 0873525302
    Edition: 2. printing
    Series: Approaches to teaching world literature ; 28
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets; USA; College; Englischunterricht;
    Other subjects: Array; Array; Array; Metaphysics in literature
    Scope: XII,177 S
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    Literaturverz. S. [151] - 169

  3. The English mannerist poets and the visual arts
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press [u.a.], Madison [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0838637590
    Subjects: Manierismus; Ästhetik; Kunst; Metaphysical poets
    Scope: 281 S., Ill.
  4. Metaphysical baroque & précieux poetry
    Published: 1970
    Publisher:  Folcroft Library Editions, [Folcroft, Pa.]

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    Language: English
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    Edition: [Nachdr. d. Ausg.] Oxford, 1953
    Subjects: Barock; Preziosität; Metaphysical poets; Lyrik
    Scope: VII, 184 S.
  5. The varieties of metaphysical poetry
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  Faber and Faber, London

    Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, Zentralbibliothek
    As 6296
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    Contributor: Schuchard, Ronald (Hrsg.)
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0571142303
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets;
    Scope: XI, 343 S, Ill
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    Enth.: The Clark lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1926, and The Turnbull lectures at The Johns Hopkins University, 1933

  6. Metaphysical wit
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

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    92 A 1334
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    A 1992/10927
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0521340276
    Subjects: English poetry; English wit and humor; Comparative literature; Comparative literature; Metaphysics in literature; Englisch; Metaphysical poets
    Scope: XII, 270 S, Ill., 22 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-266) and index

  7. John Donne and the seventeenth-century metaphysical poets
    Contributor: Bloom, Harold (Hrsg.)
    Published: 1986
    Publisher:  Chelsea House Publ., New York [u.a.]

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    Contributor: Bloom, Harold (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0877546770
    RVK Categories: HI 1198 ; HI 1915
    Edition: 2. [Dr.]
    Series: Modern critical views
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets
    Other subjects: Donne, John (1572-1631)
    Scope: VIII, 274 S
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. 249 - 262

  8. Approaches to teaching the metaphysical poets
    Contributor: Gottlieb, Sidney (Hrsg.)
    Published: 1990
    Publisher:  Modern Language Ass. of America, New York

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Bibliothekszentrum Geisteswissenschaften (BzG)
    LE 805.38
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    Contributor: Gottlieb, Sidney (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0873525299
    RVK Categories: HI 1198
    Series: Approaches to teaching world literature ; 28.
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets; Englisch; Lehre; Englischunterricht; College
    Scope: XII, 177 S.
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. [151] - 169

  9. Approaches to teaching the metaphysical poets
    Contributor: Gottlieb, Sidney (Hrsg.)
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Modern Language Assoc. of America, New York

    Universität Gießen, Bibliothek Anglistik
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    Contributor: Gottlieb, Sidney (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0873525299; 0873525302
    RVK Categories: HI 1198
    Edition: 2. printing
    Series: Approaches to teaching world literature ; 28
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets; Englisch; Lehre; Englischunterricht; College
    Scope: XII, 177 S
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    Literaturverz. S. [151] - 169

  10. The metaphysical poets
    a chronology
    Author: Lull, Janis
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Hall [u.a.], New York [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book; Microfilm
    ISBN: 081617251X
    RVK Categories: HI 1198
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets
    Scope: VII, 227 S.
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    Literaturverz. S. 217 - 219

  11. Metaphysical wit
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0521340276
    RVK Categories: HI 1198 ; HI 1161
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets; Concetto; Esprit; Humor; Sprache
    Scope: XII, 270 S.
  12. The metaphysical novel in England and America
    Dickens, Bulwer, Melville, and Hawthorne
    Published: 1978
    Publisher:  Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.]

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0520033825
    RVK Categories: HG 679 ; HL 1301
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets; Englisch
    Scope: 237 S.
  13. Christ revealed
    the history of the neotypological lyric in the English renaissance
    Author: Clark, Ira
    Published: 1982
    Publisher:  Univ. of Florida Press, Gainesville, Fla.

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0813007127
    RVK Categories: HI 1249
    Series: University of Florida monographs. Humanities ; 51
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets; Typologie; Englisch; Ethos; Lyrik; Christliche Lyrik; Typologische Exegese
    Scope: XIV, 221
  14. The Metaphysicals and Milton
    Published: 1956
    Publisher:  Chatto & Windus, London

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    RVK Categories: HI 1198 ; HK 2575
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets
    Other subjects: Milton, John (1608-1674)
    Scope: VII, 87 S.
  15. From Donne to Dryden
    the revolt against metaphysical poetry
    Published: 1940
    Publisher:  Univ. of North Carolina Pr., Chapel Hill

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Bibliothekszentrum Geisteswissenschaften (BzG)
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    RVK Categories: HK 1071
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets; Rezeption; Englisch; Lyrik
    Other subjects: Donne, John (1572-1631); Dryden, John (1631-1700)
    Scope: XIII, 221 S.
  16. The poetry of grace
    reformation themes and structures in English seventeenth-century poetry
    Published: 1970
    Publisher:  Yale Univ. Pr., New Haven [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
    10.582.14
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    Language: English
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    RVK Categories: HI 1249 ; BM 1785
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets; Reformation <Motiv>; Englisch; Lyrik
    Scope: 180 S.
  17. A reader's guide to the metaphysical poets
    John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Abraham Cowley, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell
    Published: 1974
    Publisher:  Thames & Hudson, London

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Bibliothekszentrum Geisteswissenschaften (BzG)
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    RVK Categories: HI 1311 ; HI 1198
    Edition: 3. print
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets; Englisch; Lyrik
    Scope: 274 S.
  18. Four metaphysical poets
    an anthology of poetry by Donne, Herbert, Marvell and Vaughan
    Contributor: Willmott, Richard
    Published: 1985
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

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    Contributor: Willmott, Richard
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0521277582
    RVK Categories: HI 1340
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets
    Scope: VIII, 192p
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    Includes bibliography

  19. The transformation of sin
    studies in Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne
    Published: 1974
    Publisher:  MacGill-Queen's Univ. Press [u.a.], Montreal [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
    11.131.44
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0773502092; 0870231588
    RVK Categories: HI 1161 ; HI 1198
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets; Ethik
    Other subjects: Augustinus, Aurelius Heiliger (354-430)
    Scope: XIII, 240 S., Ill.
  20. The poetry of grace
    Reformation themes and structures in English seventeenth-century poetry
    Published: 1972
    Publisher:  Yale Univ. Press, New Haven

    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Philosophicum, Standort Anglistik/ Amerikanistik
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0300013418
    RVK Categories: HI 1249 ; BM 1785
    Edition: 2. print.
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets; Reformation <Motiv>; Englisch; Lyrik
    Scope: XII, 180 S.
  21. A reader's guide to the metaphysical poets
    John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Abraham Cowley, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell
    Published: 1968
    Publisher:  Thames and Hudson, London

    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Philosophicum, Standort Anglistik/ Amerikanistik
    L/V/3 W 3 II b
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    RVK Categories: HI 1198 ; HI 1311
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets; Englisch; Lyrik
    Scope: 274 S.
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S.[263]-265

  22. Metaphysical lyrics and poems of the seventeenth century
    Donne to Butler
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

    Universität Mainz, Zentralbibliothek
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    Contributor: Grierson, Herbert John Clifford (Begr.); Fowler, Alastair (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 019282290X
    RVK Categories: HI 1340 ; HK 1181 ; HK 1420
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets; Englisch; Lyrik
    Scope: XIX, 320 S.
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. [305] - 316

  23. The language of the metaphysical poets
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

    Universität Gießen, Bibliothek Anglistik
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    ISBN: 0333495667; 0333495675
    RVK Categories: HI 1198 ; HK 1151
    Series: The language of literature
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets; Sprache
    Scope: XV, 195 S.
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. 185 - 188

  24. An introduction to the metaphysical poets
    Published: 1972
    Publisher:  Macmillan, London [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0333136675
    RVK Categories: HG 260 ; HI 1198
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets
    Scope: 115 S.
  25. Four metaphysical poets
    Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw
    Published: 1957
    Publisher:  Univ. Press, Cambridge

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    RVK Categories: HK 1150 ; HI 1198
    Edition: 2. ed., repr. with corr.
    Subjects: Metaphysical poets
    Other subjects: Donne, John (1572-1631); Vaughan, Henry (1622-1695); Crashaw, Richard (1613-1649); Herbert, George (1593-1633)
    Scope: IX, 126 S.