Sean H. McDowell

Metaphysical Shadows

The Persistence of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell in Contemporary Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

Metaphysical Shadows examines how the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell still speaks to working poets today. In the poems of Seamus Heaney, Alfred Corn, Anne Cluysenaar, Kimberly Johnson, Maureen Boyle, Jericho Brown, and others, these earlier poets continue to cast shadows in powerfully revealing ways.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 355g
• ISBN-13: 9781793635457
• ISBN-10: 1793635455
• Artikelnr.: 68536734

Autorenporträt

By Sean H. McDowell

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
A Note to the Reader
Metaphysical Shadows: An Introduction
Part I. Varieties of Shadows
Chapter One: Echo and Allusion: "The Extasie" Behind Seamus Heaney's
"Chanson d'Aventure"
Chapter Two: The Answer Poem: Anne Donne on the Isle of Wight
Chapter Three: Shared Subjects: Andrew Marvell, Archibald MacLeish, and
Brendan Kennelly
Chapter Four: Modal Resemblances: "Metaphysical," "Meditative," and the
Poetry of Donne, W. B. Yeats, and Ronald Johnson
Part II. Late 20th- and Early 21st-Century Shadows
Chapter Five: What Did Suffice: Scintillas of Vaughan in the Poetry of Anne
Cluysenaar
Chapter Six: Donne, Heaney, and the Boldness of Love
Chapter Seven: The Depth of Herbert's Voiceprint in the Poetry of Alfred
Corn
Chapter Eight: Verbal Relish in the Poetry of Donne and Kimberly Johnson
Chapter Nine: The Tradition and the Individual Talent: Jericho Brown and
the Donnean Note
Shadow Instruction: An Afterward
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author