Metaphysical Wit
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521340276
ISBN13:9780521340274
Release Date:January 1992
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:284 Pages
Weight:1.12 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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