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6 giorni fa · Review. The Shrouds: a grimly necrophiliac fantasy from David Cronenberg. The steepest disappointment of Cronenberg’s late career follows a high-tech cemetery operation that instals cameras inside...
4 giorni fa · Deftly, Laing explores the place of the garden through five centuries of English culture, from Milton’s Paradise to Derek Jarman’s Dungeness. Some of her waypoints are perhaps predictable: as well as Milton, Andrew Marvell and John Clare are her poets, but she writes refreshingly and makes swift connections.
1 giorno fa · Milton held the appointment of Secretary for Foreign Tongues to the Commonwealth Council of State until 1660, although after he had become totally blind, most of the work was done by his deputies, Georg Rudolph Wecklein, then Philip Meadows, and from 1657 by the poet Andrew Marvell.
20 ore fa · Similarly, in Andrew Marvell’s “The Garden”, the poet uses the metaphor of a garden to explore the idea of spiritual and romantic fulfillment. Exploring the human condition is also seen in the spiritual imagery of metaphysical poets like John Donne and George Herbert, as they often use religious symbols and metaphors to express a variety of different spiritual themes.
1 giorno fa · At around that time, Folio published a series of miniature books with appropriately miniature engravings, and Harry was chosen to illustrate a selection of Garden Poems by Andrew Marvell. Here is an extract from 'The Garden', a poem which describes the merging of humankind and nature:
2 giorni fa · Besides Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, the major poets of the early 17th century included the Metaphysical poets: John Donne (1572–1631), George Herbert (1593–1633), Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, and Richard Crashaw. Their style was characterized by wit and metaphysical conceits, that is far-fetched or unusual similes or metaphors ...
15 ore fa · All men that walk by path or street, Take heed ye shall no labor lose, Behold mine head, mine hands, mine feet, And fully feel now ere ye stay, If any mourning may be mete. Or mischief measured unto mine. My Father that all grief may mend, Forgive these men that do me pain.
