The Erotics of Materialism

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Jessie Hock

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Jessie Hock maps the intersection of poetry and natural philosophy in the early modern reception of Lucretius and his De rerum natura. Focusing on Pierre de Ronsard, Remy Belleau, John Donne, Lucy Hutchinson, and Margaret Cavendish, she demonstrates how these poets read De rerum natura as a treatise on the poetic imagination.

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Introduction. The Supple Snare 1
Chapter 1. Materializing the Lyric Tradition: Lucretius and the Poetry of Pierre de Ronsard
Chapter 2. Poetry in a Time of War: Lucretius and Poetic Patrimony in Pierre de Ronsard's Sonnets pour Helene and Remy Belleau's Pierres précieuses
Chapter 3. "Like gold to aery thinness beat": John Donne's Materialisms
Chapter 4. Lucy Hutchinson and the Erotic Reception of Lucretius
Chapter 5. Lucretian Poetics and Women's Writing in Margaret Cavendish's Poems and Fancies
Epilogue. This Is Our Venus
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments