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The donna angelica and the British enlightenment poets : six studies from Butler to Crabbe
Title
The donna angelica and the British enlightenment poets : six studies from Butler to Crabbe / A.D. Cousins.
ISBN
100338689X
9781003386896
9781032480015
9781032480039
Publication
New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"The aim of the book is to propose new interpretations of poets who are among the most valued and discussed in the British Enlightenment. In fulfilling its aim, the book covers English poetry - and intellectual history - from the Restoration to the later eighteenth century. It examines how the myth of the donna angelica (the angelic lady), ancient in origin but given its best-known form within the medieval literature of fin'amor, lives on beyond the Middle Ages and the Renaissance into the Enlightenment. To be more precise, it studies how some major Augustan poets appropriate and recreate what, for convenience, can be called the donna angelica topos (or, the angelic lady motif). They do so for a great many reasons linked with quite diverse circumstances. Nevertheless, the myth's intellectual richness, emotional intensity, and inherent ambiguities mean that it offers each of them a powerful way for articulating, interpreting, exploring refractions of eros-whether singly or diversely directed, concerned with sexuality or spirituality, informing personal or public experience. The myth has as many faces, so to speak, as does desire; it is one and yet many. Thus, the book pursues a particular fable of eros that appears in a multiplicity of texts in a multiplicity of guises. It studies how some of the most interesting poets from Dryden to Crabbe bring the angelic lady motif into modernity"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Cousins, A. D., 1950- Donna angelica and the British enlightenment poets New York, NY : Routledge, 2025
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 30, 2024
Series
21st century perspectives on British literature and society
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Samuel Butler: Hudibras and the lady
The donna angelica in John Dryden's 'To the Lady Castlemaine' and other writings, chiefly to patronesses
Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift: Belinda, and the unfortunate lady; Celia, Chloe, and Stella
Samuel Johnson: Stella, Irene and Aspasia
George Crabbe, The library and The village: old myths made new; old myths abandoned.
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