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The Reinvention of Love: Poetry, Politics and Culture from Sidney to Milton Book

Through close reading of the work of Sidney, Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Carew and Milton, Anthony Low argues that cultural, economic and political change transformed the way poets from Sidney to Milton thought and wrote about love. He shows how poets struggled in vain to invent a form of love in harmony with the changing world. For Milton, sacred love, cut off from communal norms, verges on hatred, while married love carries the burden of assuaging loneliness in a threatening world: society and tradition can no longer deal with the pressures of cultural change upon love.Read More

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  • 0521070325
  • 9780521070324
  • Anthony Low
  • 31 July 2008
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 276
  • 1
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