The Poem, the Garden, and the World: Poetry and Performativity in Elizabethan England

by Jim Ellis

How an early modern understanding of place and movement are embedded in a performative theory of literature

How is a garden like a poem? Early modern writers frequently compared the two, and as Jim Ellis shows, the metaphor gained strength with the arrival of a spectacular new art form--the Renaissance pleasure garden--which immersed visitors in a political allegory to be read by their bodies' movements. The Poem, the Garden,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810145308
• ISBN13: 9780810145306
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"