ENGL 3170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Taste, Conceit, Christopher Marlowe
29 Mar 2017
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Invented by elizabethans in late 1590s: sir john herrington. Writer: only ppl who used toilet himself and the queen. 18c is when same idea gets picked up on. Engineering stuff still with us today. Notion that there is an ethics to knowing poetry leads to knowing. Gnosis a realm of knowledge out there, always trying to get access too. Physical poetry meant to have metaphysical conceits (an idea where ingenuity of idea is more striking than the idea itself) Elaborate idea that flea bitten both lovers is emblematic that they should be having sex with each other but don"t: saying refusal to make love as insignificant of a flea. Language starting to eroticise itself: swell . Flea embed both blood together in body metaphysical conceit for straight up proposition. Death orgasm, using having sex: heightening the erotic. Eros and thanatos: erotic energy linked to death.
