English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Jacob Burck, Conceit, Metaphysical Poets
8 Dec 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
A combination of belief in god, belief in spiritual matters, hope, charity. Hyphens are unstable: you can"t really reconcile faith and humanism. Picodella mirandola, oration on the dignity of man (1486) The discovery of the world and of people . Make sense of the movement at the time of the renaissance from pseudoscience to science as it is today. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons and allusions their wish was to say what they hoped had never been said before . Metaphysical poets desire to be admired, rather than understood. Instead of being placed in the centre of the universe, human beings realized they were placed in the centre of their world. Human beings have enormous potential to make themselves more like god or like animals. Had opportunity to make their own identity, decisions etc. World puts commands in place to control appetite.
