English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Metaphysical Poets, Mirandola, Christian Humanism
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Faith, hope that theres something that lies beyond human life. Hyfen is to indicate an instability of anxiety of the two things being linked together. Telescope, signal of love in the renaissance. Picodella mirandola, oration on the dignity of man (1486) The discovery of the world and and of people. - jacob burckhardt. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions their wish was to say that eat they hoped had never been said before. More to be out there than getting people to understand your poetry. The will can be a channel through which god can enter a human being. Passion and appetites aren"t bad just need to be consumed in moderation. Tried to look at human love and human sexuality. Metaphysical poetry: philosophical, linked to science in some ways, tries to discover and explore di erent realms of reason, wit and passions.