"An harmony of parts" : image and logic in the poetry of Edward, Lord Herbert of Chirbury
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Anne Kimberly Bryson Allen (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Amy M. Charles
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore the combination of logic and image in the poetry of Edward, Lord Herbert of Chirbury. Herbert's poems were found to be tightly constructed arguments whose imagery is embodied in tropes and schemes that build upon one another in the logical progression of the thought. Edward Herbert drew his poetic subject matter from issues within those areas of seventeenth-century thought that were familiar and interesting to him: politics, science, and philosophy. Because Herbert's subjects are themselves abstractions, the imagery of his poems is typically without shape or substance. This study examines Herbert's use of logic and image in poems inspired by politics, by science, and by philosophy. "To his Mistress for her True Picture" is presented as a paradigm of Herbert's method.
"An harmony of parts" : image and logic in the poetry of Edward, Lord Herbert of Chirbury
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 1981
- Subjects
- Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, $c Baron, $d 1583-1648
- Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, $c Baron, $d 1583-1648 $x Criticism and interpretation
- Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, $c Baron, $d 1583-1648 $x Style