Poetry, signs, and magic /

Poetry, signs, and magic /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greene, Thomas M. (Thomas McLernon), 1926-2003
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2005]
Subjects:
European poetry > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
European poetry > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Language, signs, and magic
  • Poetry as invocation
  • Rabelais and the language of malediction
  • Labyrinth dances in the French and English Renaissance
  • The poetics of discovery : a reading of Donne's Elegy 19
  • Shakespeare's Richard II : the name in Bolingbroke's window
  • Pressures of context in Antony and Cleopatra
  • Ceremonial closure in Shakespeare's plays
  • Magic and counter-magic in Comus
  • The balance of power in Marvell's Horatian ode
  • Coleridge and the energy of asking
  • Poetry and the scattered world
  • Poetry and permeability.