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...Christopher Braider [email protected] The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics . By Jessie Hock . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2021 . 234 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 The focus of Jessie...

...W. David Shaw IMAGINATION AND INTELLECT IN TENNYSON’S “LUCRETIUS” By W. DAVIDSHAW One of the characteristics of postromantic culture is a conflict be- tween thought and feeling, facts and values. Deploring...

...Sarah Ellenzweig The question of how and why a body falls in Paradise Lost persistently returns to the declining bodies that occupy Lucretius’s De rerum natura . Milton’s Christian support of the Arminian doctrine of free will, his argument that man is “Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall...

... of the French Revolution. I approach this task by considering Darwin’s self-conscious relationship to the Roman poem that furnished a model for the cooperative labor of reason and imagination. Lucretius’s De rerum natura (ca. 55 BC), a long treatment of Epicurean principles, inspired a raft of similarly...

... Greenblatt’s ( 2011 : 5) Swerve begins with an anecdote about the author’s mother, whose “obsessive fear” of dying prefaced his own conversion to Epicurean philosophy, replaying in miniature the Renaissance rediscovery of Lucretius. Contemplating matter and the void is supposed to relieve the mind of fear...

... than anything that can be found in Swift’s poems, and excrement too had been straying into poetry long before him. But examination of some of these precedents shows that Swift’s relation to them creates interpretive problems. Although Ovid, Lucretius, and Erasmus, among...

... was in graduate school, it suddenly seemed as if everyone in early modern studies were working on Lucretius. Visiting scholars, known for other things, delivered talks on ancient materialism. Latin intensives were filled with faculty wanting to readDe rerum natura for themselves. Graduate seminars...

..., when I was in graduate school, it suddenly seemed as if everyone in early modern studies were working on Lucretius. Visiting scholars, known for other things, delivered talks on ancient materialism. Latin intensives were filled with faculty wanting to readDe rerum natura for themselves...

... was in graduate school, it suddenly seemed as if everyone in early modern studies were working on Lucretius. Visiting scholars, known for other things, delivered talks on ancient materialism. Latin intensives were filled with faculty wanting to readDe rerum natura for themselves. Graduate seminars...

.... The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition. By Gerard Passannante. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 250 pp. About a decade ago, when I was in graduate school, it suddenly seemed as if everyone in early modern studies were working on Lucretius. Visiting scholars...

... and the Afterlife of Tradition. By Gerard Passannante. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 250 pp. About a decade ago, when I was in graduate school, it suddenly seemed as if everyone in early modern studies were working on Lucretius. Visiting scholars, known for other things, delivered talks...

... of Tradition. By Gerard Passannante. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 250 pp. About a decade ago, when I was in graduate school, it suddenly seemed as if everyone in early modern studies were working on Lucretius. Visiting scholars, known for other things, delivered talks on ancient...

.... 356 pp. The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition. By Gerard Passannante. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 250 pp. About a decade ago, when I was in graduate school, it suddenly seemed as if everyone in early modern studies were working on Lucretius...

.... To be fair, Swarbrick does devote signi cant attention to the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (9 12), whose old materialism I enclose, just for the moment, within a parenthesis. Despite the contrastive tone, Swarbrick proves surprisingly amenable to some versions of the new materialisms: The current...

... (On the Nature of Things) is a philosophical poem by the Latin writer Titus Lucretius Carus, who lived during the rst half of the rst cen- tury BCE. The cultural presence of this text in the literature of the English Renaissance has been underestimated in modern scholarship, and its signi - cance...

... (On the Nature of Things) is a philosophical poem by the Latin writer Titus Lucretius Carus, who lived during the rst half of the rst cen- tury BCE. The cultural presence of this text in the literature of the English Renaissance has been underestimated in modern scholarship, and its signi - cance...

...) is a philosophical poem by the Latin writer Titus Lucretius Carus, who lived during the rst half of the rst cen- tury BCE. The cultural presence of this text in the literature of the English Renaissance has been underestimated in modern scholarship, and its signi - cance misconstrued. Jonathan Goldberg’s...

... (On the Nature of Things) is a philosophical poem by the Latin writer Titus Lucretius Carus, who lived during the rst half of the rst cen- tury BCE. The cultural presence of this text in the literature of the English Renaissance has been underestimated in modern scholarship, and its signi - cance...

..., 2009. xii + 267 pp. De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) is a philosophical poem by the Latin writer Titus Lucretius Carus, who lived during the rst half of the rst cen- tury BCE. The cultural presence of this text in the literature of the English Renaissance has been underestimated...

... troubling images from Virgil’s Georgics , Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things , and contemporary natural philosophy that indicate the power of chance and contingency over human agency on a dynamic planet. Throughout the book Menely returns to the same passages from Virgil and Lucretius to show how...