... Mediterranean through focus on Neoplatonism and its interface with poetry. The introduction proceeds to justify why Neoplatonism was singled out for such a comparative endeavour and expounds key ideas of its founder Plotinus with a view to their poetic elaboration in the literatures represented in the book...

...This chapter uses the space between Greek Neoplatonism and Arabic Neoplatonism to ask what Neoplatonism is and how Neoplatonism appears in literary criticism. Starting with Robert Lowell, al-Ḥallāj, and Robert Duncan, I argue that Neoplatonic poetics is a judgement, made in our twenty-first century...

... poetics Petrarchism Roman d’Eneas Ipomadon William of Palerne The heroines of this paper’s title appear in a group of stories, of romances, that upset a good many of our received opinions of the Middle Ages. These romances require a rethink of our ideas of medieval women, or of how women could...

... of Saunders Lewis’s classic study of his romanticism so as to suggest not only a tangible link between the two poetic non-conformists, but also a means of appreciating Dylan Thomas’s own aesthetic development as a poet. Dylan Thomas Saunders Lewis poetics romanticism post-colonialism Welsh literature...

... in their broader characterisations of its aims, purposes and effects, this chapter seeks instead to distinguish two key temporalities at work within it. Contrasting Cromwell time with Marvell time offers a new perspective on the poet’s self-reflexive characterisation of his own art, delineating a mode of poetic...

... of praise and blame in his literary universe – to consider how, or if, the praise of famous men consorts with the poetics of liminality in that brilliant chameleon. affect Blood Thomas Charles I of England Charles II of England Cromwell Elizabeth Cromwell Mary Douglas Archibald Fairfax Mary later...

.... In the second half of the century several British scholars made substantial contributions to historical metrics. They include Geoffrey Leech in his linguistic guide to poetics, W. Sidney Allen in his reconstruction of Classical Latin phonology and Nigel Fabb in his study of form and literary theory. Allen W...

... Greek and Oriental sources and explains his key principles, with focus on those of particular relevance for literature and the arts. The chapter proceeds to introduce the authors and poetic traditions covered in the volume by situating them in the intercultural transmission history of Neoplatonic...

... Appleton House’, in which the reality of the world is ceaselessly recreated by arbitrary poetic Fiat. alchemy Davenant William Dryden John Marvell Andrew Marvell Andrew style Marvell Andrew works of Milton John Boyle Robert Descartes René Diggers Du Bartas Guillaume English...

... of Neoplatonic Aesthetics and Poetics in the context of this philosophical school by classifying the first examples of the use of poetry in Neoplatonism and aiming at some general taxonomy of Neoplatonic poetry. The central focus is on early Byzantine poetry: the so-called Nonnian School (fifth-seventh centuries...

... close observation of the daisy but also a consideration of the kind of poetic language one should employ when encountering nature. Close study of Chaucer’s poem and Wordsworth’s multiple poems to daisies within the frame of Timothy Morton’s stimulating theory of ecomimetic ambient poetics reveals...

... himself. In this the chapter offers a new approach to an important subject in Marvell scholarship – the poet’s characteristic elusiveness – by drawing on recent work in sound studies as well as early modern poetics. It argues that the poem’s voice has a substantial presence articulated in form...