Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England
This book reveals the ways in which seventeenth-century poets used models of vision taken from philosophy, theology, scientific optics, political polemic and the visual arts to scrutinize the nature of individual perceptions and to examine poetry’s own relation to truth.
Drawing on archival research, Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England brings together an innovative selection of texts and im...
This book reveals the ways in which seventeenth-century poets used models of vision taken from philosophy, theology, scientific optics, political polemic and the visual arts to scrutinize the nature of individual perceptions and to examine poetry’s own relation to truth.
Drawing on archival research, Poetry and Vision in Early Modern England brings together an innovative selection of texts and im...
