The form of love : poetry's quarrel with philosophy / James Kuzner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuzner, James, author.

Series:

Fordham scholarship online.

Fordham scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love poetry--History and criticism.

Love poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.

Summary:

'The Form of Love' explores what poetry can articulate about love that philosophy cannot. Reading seven poems, this book shows how figures ranging from Donne to Dickinson use poetic form to transform philosophy's concern to convey truth about love into the concern to create a virtual experience of love.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction: The Form of Love: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Closeness of Loving Reading

1. Disjunctive Love: Philosophical Project and Poetic Experience in Donne's "The Ecstasy"

2. Obscure Love: Virtual Masochisms in Philips's "Friendship's Mysterys"

3. Forgetting to Love: Problems of Praise in Herbert's "The Flower"

4. Loving Rhyme: Reading Mastery in Crashaw's "The Flaming Heart"

5. Green Love: Lost in Marvell's "The Garden"

6. Love and/or Lyric: Dickinson's "I cannot live with You -"

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Series List.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 25, 2021).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780823297504

0823297500

9780823294527

0823294528

OCLC:

1257763281