Unimagined in the English Renaissance: Poetry and the Limits of Mimesis

By Andrew Mattison

Book Overview

This book is about description and image in Renaissance poetry, but focuses not on descriptions that present a vivid image to the reader's mind but on those that seem to avoid doing so. Against the ancient and still active tradition that poetry is painting in words, it argues that poetry is most poetic when its goals are not visual.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611477719
• ISBN13: 9781611477719
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.3"