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... Fletcher in The Purple Island , over which I pause , both because it is the most extreme example in verse of the geocosmic - microcos- mic analogy , and because it will later show us how geology and physiology were retarded by the ...
... Fletcher in The Purple Island , over which I pause , both because it is the most extreme example in verse of the geocosmic - microcos- mic analogy , and because it will later show us how geology and physiology were retarded by the ...
Page 117
... Fletcher repeated a commonplace long accepted in both physiology and geology about the body of man and the body of the earth : Nor is there any part in all this land , But is a little Isle ; for thousand brooks In azure chanels glide on ...
... Fletcher repeated a commonplace long accepted in both physiology and geology about the body of man and the body of the earth : Nor is there any part in all this land , But is a little Isle ; for thousand brooks In azure chanels glide on ...
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... Fletcher's gloss on the quoted stanza will tell us the difference : The whole body is as it were watered with great ... Fletcher , " convey nourishment from the liver . . . from the liver rise all the springs of bloud , which runnes in ...
... Fletcher's gloss on the quoted stanza will tell us the difference : The whole body is as it were watered with great ... Fletcher , " convey nourishment from the liver . . . from the liver rise all the springs of bloud , which runnes in ...
Contents
A Little World Made Cunningly | 1 |
The Circle of Perfection | 34 |
The Death of a World | 65 |
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Adam aesthetics analogy Anniversary Poems Astraea astronomy beauty believed blood body Circle of Perfection circular compass Copernicus cosmic Countess of Bedford Crashaw Creation creatures dance dead death decay Deity Donne wrote Donne's doth earth elements Elizabeth Drury Elizabethan epitome eternity eyes fire Fletcher Galileo's Garden of Cyrus geocosm globe harmony Harvey hath heart heavens Henry Henry Vaughan Herbert idea infinite infinity Jacob Boehme John Donne Kepler little world living loadstone macrocosm and microcosm man's metaphor metaphysical microcosm Milton mind modern moon motion mystical Nature Otto Benesch Paracelsus Philosophy Phineas Fletcher planets poetry poets proportion Purple Island Religio Medici Renaissance round scientists Second Anniversary seventeenth century shee Sir Thomas Browne soul space sphere spirit stanza starres stars symbol tears terrella thee theory things Thomas Traherne thou thought tion Traherne universe vast Virgin whole wonder