Title: Configurations : a topomorphical approach to Renaissance poetry /
Authors: Røstvig, Maren-Sofie
Publisher: Scandinavian University Press ; Oxford University Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Augustine, Influence.; Tasso, Torquato,; Spenser, Edmund,; Milton, John,; European poetry History and criticism.
Contents: pt. 1. From Augustine to Tasso. I. Mirabilis Ordo: Augustine and the Vision of Unity. 1. Augustine, Bonaventura, Cusanus, and Ficino. 2. Pico and Giorgio. 3. Pietro Bongo and Pierre de la Primaudaye. 4. Philip of Mornay, Marin Mersenne, Peter Sterry, and Pere Andre. 5. From Theology to Poetics. II. Fitly Framed Together: Augustine's Confessions. 1. The Pre-planned Poem. 2. The Autobiography (Books 1-9). 3. The Symmetrical Structure of Books 1-13. 4. The Graded Arrangement of Books 1-13 -- 5. Concluding Remarks. III. Structural Exegesis. IV. From Exegesis to Composition. 1. Some Early Latin Poems and Plays. 2. Torquato Tasso, Sette Giornate del Mondo Creato (1607). V. Patterns of Return: Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered. 1. The Extended Centre. 2. Triads and Tetrads. 3. Recessed Symmetry. 4. The Graded Arrangement. 5. Canto Structure -- 6. Concluding Remarks -- pt. 2. From Spenser to Dryden. VI. Spenser's "Tunefull Diapase": The Faerie Queene I and II. 1. Book I: Canto Structure.