{"product_id":"poets-and-the-visual-arts-norman-k-farmer-9780292744400","title":"Poets and the Visual Arts in Renaissance England","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the twentieth century, the pioneering work of such art historians as Erwin Panofsky and Edgar Wind heightened our awareness of the relationship between Renaissance literature and the visual arts. By focusing on that relationship in the work of such poets as Sir Philip Sidney, John Donne, Richard Crashaw, Edmund Waller, and Robert Herrick, Norman K. Farmer, Jr., convincingly shows that they and other writers of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in England wrote with a lively and creative sense of the visual-a sense richly informed by the theory and practice of Renaissance art.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFarmer begins by describing the powerful visual matrix that underlies the narrative structure of Sidney's \u003ci\u003eNew Arcadia\u003c\/i\u003e. He compares the role of the visual in the poetry of Donne and Ben Jonson, and demonstrates how works by both Thomas Carew and Lord Herbert exhibit poetic invention according to familiar Renaissance pictorial themes. Herrick's \u003ci\u003eHesperides\u003c\/i\u003e is shown to be the major seventeenth-century poetic application of the Horatian idea \u003ci\u003eut pictura poesis\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA special feature of this gracefully written and enlightening volume is Farmer's discussion of Lady Drury's oratory at Hawstead Hall. Published here for the first time are photographs of this uniquely decorated oratory, in which themes from a variety of English and Continental emblem books were painted on the walls of a room apparently designed for private meditation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Norman K. Farmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292744404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292744400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/1984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.30d","brand":"Norman K. Farmer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47610982465791,"sku":"9780292744400","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ee49cecb-a7e9-45fb-869c-4aecac29f760.jpg?v=1764510937","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poets-and-the-visual-arts-norman-k-farmer-9780292744400","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}