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English literary scholar Maren-Sofie Rostvig presents an investigation of the significant role played by orthodox theology and biblical exegesis in the shaping of the structurally oriented poetics typical of the Renaissance. Rostvig shows how the use of symbolic numbers and ratios is subordinated to a system of linkage created by verbal repetition and the repetition of similar themes or events. Examining primarily the epic tradition, including Augustine, Tasso, Spenser, and Milton, she also looks at the religious sequence represented by Quarles's Emblemes, and the religious lyric by Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne, as well as the panegyric by John Dryden.
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This study traces the structurally-oriented poetics of the Renaissance back to Augustine, who argued that unity exists when part relates to part in a symmetrical or graded arrangement. Another important source is biblical exegesis which constitutes an uninterrupted tradition of structural analysis where number symbolism plays an important part. The author shows how the use of symbolic numbers and ratios is subordinated to a system of linkage created by verbal repetition and the repetition of similar themes or events. She indicates how verbal and numerical patterns often coincide. The author's main emphasis is on the epic tradition (Augustine, Tasso, Spenser and Milton), although she also discusses the religious sequence represented by Quarles's "Emblemes", and the religious lyric by Herbert, Vaughan and Traherne, as well as the panegyric by John Dryden. The analyses are accompanied by diagrams which encourage the spatial or synoptic survey called for in the study of poetry based on a structural "fore-conceit".
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