Metaphysical Wit

Name: Metaphysical Wit
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METAPHYSICAL WIT

Contributor(s): Smith, A. J. Author Format: Hardback

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ISBN	9780521340274
Subtitle	METAPHYSICAL WIT
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Publication date	September 1992
Language	English
MRP	£94.00 GBP
Page count	284
Item weight	112 g

English metaphysical poetry, from Donne to Marvell, is conspicuously witty. A. J. Smith seeks the central importance of wit in the thinking of the metaphysical poets, and argues that metaphysical wit is essentially different from other modes of wit current in Renaissance Europe. Formal theories and rhetorics of wit are considered both for their theoretical import and their appraisals of wit in practice. Prevailing fashions of witty invention are scrutinized in Italian, French, and Spanish writings, so as to bring out the nature and effect of various forms of wit: conceited, hieroglyphic, transformational, and others from which the metaphysical mode is distinguished. He locates the basis of Renaissance wit in the received conception of the created order and a theory of literary innovation inherent in Humanist belief, which led to novel couplings of time and eternity, body and soul, man and God. Yet, he finds that metaphysical wit distinctively works to discover a spiritual presence in sensible events; and he traces its demise in the 1660s to changes in the understanding of the natural world associated with the rise of empirical science.

Metaphysical Wit

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Smith, A. J. Author

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