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dc.contributor.authorRaman, Shankar
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-18T20:23:40Z
dc.date.available2017-12-18T20:23:40Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-7190-8553-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112791
dc.description.abstractThis essay explores the intimate bond in early modern Europe between the premier science of forms, geometry, and the premier art of forms, poetry. The connections between these (at least for us) seemingly disparate domains become especially evident in how geometry and poetry re-envisage the relationship of form to content, of the shapes they invent to the matters that constitute their specific concerns. I shall be seeking here to identify parallels that bespeak a broader, shared cultural response across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to an inherited Greek tradition, strongly marked by Aristotelian thought, in which what Sir Philip Sidney would later call the relation of “manner” to “matter” played a fundamental role. My argument places Rene Descartes alongside Sidney as two of the key figures whose contributions to the theory and practice of mathematics and poetry respectively reveal with especial vividness both the nature of this response and its implications for early modern selves and the worlds they sought to make.en_US
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dc.publisherManchester University Pressen_US
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dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alikeen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/en_US
dc.sourceRamanen_US
dc.titleHow to Construct a Poem: Descartes, Sidneyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationRaman, Shankar. "How to Construct a Poem: Descartes, Sidney." Formal Matters: Reading the Materials of the English Renaissance, ed. by Alison Deutermann and Andras Kisery, Manchester University Press, 2013 © 2013 Manchester University Pressen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. Literature Sectionen_US
dc.contributor.approverRaman, Shankaren_US
dc.contributor.mitauthorRaman, Shankar
dc.relation.journalFormal Matters: Reading the Materials of the English Renaissanceen_US
dc.eprint.versionOriginal manuscripten_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/BookItemen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/NonPeerRevieweden_US
dspace.orderedauthorsRaman, Shankaren_US
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dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9288-2818
mit.licenseOPEN_ACCESS_POLICYen_US


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