The Life Significance of French Baroque Poetry (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820406398)

With baroque poets, the vocation of literature seems to be the exaltation of the elemental significance of life and of the human spirit. The tetrad pattern of the four elements - water, fire, air, and earth - provides their views of the cosmos as a whole, imprinting the elements' struggle with one another upon every level of creation. The four elements are the matrix of their relations to both themselves and a primordial Being. Their universe is in essence a universe of tension and uneasiness, for it is a universe of creation, revolt, and exaltation. Man does not simply submit to the forces of nature but is able by spiritual energy to regulate and control them.

Author: Marlies Kronegger
ISBN-10: 0820406392
ISBN-13: 9780820406398
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1988
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover