Hope against hope: Abraham Cowley and the metaphysics of poetry
In a poem to his friend Richard Crashaw, Abraham Cowley offered a critique of hope in ostentatiously metaphysical terms. He thus initiated an exchange, "On Hope," whose philosophical tenor offers new insights on the dialectic between poetry and metaphysics in seventeenth-century England. F...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2023
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