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• W578472485 abstract "The thesis explores the way in which anatomical discussion of the humanbody in the period c.1570-c.1680 informs a range of 16th and 17th centurypoetic texts. It begins with an account of the study of anatomy inEngland in the years between the publication of Vesalius' observationsof the body and the appearance of Harvey's ideas on the circulation of theblood in 1628, and argues that the language, the religious significance,the practice, and the patterns of symbolism in the Renaissance anatomylesson were all factors which were well understood by poets as diverseas Spenser, Sir John Davies, John Davies of Hereford, and, above all,Donne. The style of enquiry which was fostered by anatomists, and inparticular the methodological problems associated with the dissectionof the human body, are traced in anatomical text-books of the period,in theological writing, and in the work of the Encyclopaedic authorsof the 16th century: Ambroise Pare, Phillipe de Mornay, and Pierre dela Primaudaye.The poetry of Phineas Fletcher, in particular his epic poem ThePurple Island (1633), represents the climax of this conjunction betweenanatomical and poetic discourse. An extended discussion of this poemshows it to be an attempt at transforming the language and practice ofanatomy into a means of expressing religious, political, and methodologicalconfrontation. Fletcher's poem can be understood not as anincongruous fusion of poetry and science, but as an extended rehearsalof a well-established tradition of poetic accounts of the body discernablein the writings of Spenser and Donne, and in the poetic anatomizationfound in Sylvester's translation of the Divine Weekes of Du Bartas.Fletcher's poem is, however, virtually the last attempt at exploringthis tradition. With the single exception of Joseph Beaumont's Psyche(1648), which is discussed in relation to ThePurple Island, the historyof anatomy and poetry is now one of disjunction. This theme is consideredin the second half of the thesis. The replacement of intellectualsystems of enquiry based on an understanding of correspondence bymechanistic accounts of the body is held to be at the root of thefracture between anatomists and poets. The language of figures such asRoss, Van Helmont, Harvey, Willis, Collins, and Charleton, together withthe work of the theoreticians of language associated with the earlyyears of The Royal Society, are compared to older styles of anatomicwriting to reveal poetic accounts of the human body to be indebted toincreasingly anachronistic images and ideas. After Harvey's work hasbecome generally known in England it appears that poets such as ThomasRandolph, Margaret Cavendish, and John Collop resort to a language whichis no longer the shared preserve of the scientist and the poet. Thisbreak-down of shared assumptions results in the transfer of attention, onthe part of the poets, from the body itself to the scientist who exploresthe body. In the writings of Cowley, Dryden, and Jane Barker, the scientistemerges as a central figure. Imagined as a new Apollo, a heroic discoverer,his strangest transformation is that whereby he is imagined as the microcosmicvoyager and narrator of the body.The displacement of the body from poetry is, however, challengedin the writings of Thomas Traherne. The final chapter of the thesis(which functions as a conclusion to the study as a whole) argues that,in Traherne's poetry and prose, an attempt at synthesizing the poeticand the scientific understanding of the body is discernable. Traherne'swritings are discussed in the context of both the Royal Society'spronouncements on language and the work of the group with which he hasbeen most closely'associated - the Cambridge Platonists. What isrevealed is that Traherne is not (as has often been claimed) anIntellectual conservative, but rather he asserts the view that fideismand rationalism can be harmonized under a system in which the anatomistand the poet once more share a common task." @default.
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• W578472485 title "Bodies by art fashioned : anatomy, anatomists, and English Poetry 1570-1680" @default.
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