POETRY (Literary form), LITERARY criticism, LONDON (England) in literature, IRONY in literature, MASCULINITY in literature
Abstract
This paper reflects on the role of London as male Beloved in Whitney's 'Last Wyll and Testament'. Such a characterization of the city, the paper argues, has two consequences. First, it complicates and provides an important challenge to the ubiquitous personification of London as female in early modern England. Second, this dynamic between female speaker and male Beloved encourages a reconsideration of Whitney's agency in the poem - often celebrated as forceful - as more consciously ironic (although, ultimately, all the more compelling and effective because of it). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
LITERARY criticism, POETRY (Literary form), SCIENCE in literature, SEVENTEENTH century, INTELLECTUAL life
Abstract
Poetry criticism on references to the weighing of air in Book IV of the epic poem "Paradise Lost" by John Milton is presented. The author speculates on a possible association between Milton and natural philosopher Robert Boyle, who in 1657 built and air pump and published his experiments in the paper "New Experiments Physico-Mechanical touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects." Boyle's presentation of the pump to the British Royal Society and his and Milton's membership in the educated British community of the time is noted.
POETRY (Literary form), LITERARY criticism, 19TH century English poetry, SECULARISM in literature, CHRISTIANITY & literature, CLASSICISM in literature, NINETEENTH century
Abstract
The article offers criticism on the poem "Ode to Psyche," by John Keats. The author discusses secularism and criticism of Christianity in Keats's work and analyzes the work in relation to the idea of the "genealogy of the secular." Specific topics include the idea of orthodoxy in the poem, the idea of Cockney classicism, and Keats's poem "The Fall of Hyperion." Also discussed are botanical, classical Greek, and natural historical themes in the poem.
Published
2011
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