{"product_id":"the-form-of-love-poetrys-quarrel-with-philosophy-hardback-9780823294503","title":"The Form of Love; Poetry's Quarrel with Philosophy (Hardback) 9780823294503","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Form of Love\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePoetry's Quarrel with Philosophy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames Kuzner (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823294503\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 August 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.478 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan poetry articulate something about love that philosophy cannot? \u003ci\u003eThe Form of Love\u003c\/i\u003e argues that it can. In close readings of seven \"metaphysical\" poems, the book shows how poets of the early modern period and beyond use poetic form to turn philosophy to other ends, in order not to represent the truth about love but to create a virtual experience of love, in all its guises. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Form of Love\u003c\/i\u003e shows how verse creates love that can't exist without poetry's specific affordances, and how poems can, in their impossibility, prompt love's radical re-imagining. Like the philosophies on which they draw, metaphysical poems imagine love as an intense form of non-sovereignty, of giving up control. They even imagine love as a liberating bondage—to a friend, a beloved, a saint, a God, or a garden. Yet these poems create strange, striking versions of such love, made in, rather than through, the devices, structures, and forces where love appears.\u003cbr\u003e Tracing how poems think, Kuzner argues, requires an intimate form of reading: close—even too close—attention to and thinking with the text. Showing how poetry thinks of love otherwise than other fields, the book reveals how poetry and philosophy can nevertheless enter into a relation that is itself like love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: The Form of Love: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Closeness of Loving Reading   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1.\u003c\/b\u003e Disjunctive Love: Philosophical Project and Poetic Experience in Donne's \"The Ecstasy\"   29\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Obscure Love: Virtual Masochisms in Philips's \"Friendship's Mysterys\"   56\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e Forgetting to Love: Problems of Praise in Herbert's \"The Flower\"   78\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4.\u003c\/b\u003e Loving Rhyme: Reading Mastery in Crashaw's \"The Flaming Heart\"   98\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5. \u003c\/b\u003eGreen Love: Lost in Marvell's \"The Garden\"   117\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6.\u003c\/b\u003e Love and\/or Lyric: Dickinson's \"I cannot live with You -\"   145\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  171\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  173\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  209\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580462952728,"sku":"9780823294503","price":92.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-form-of-love-poetrys-quarrel-with-philosophy-hardback-9780823294503","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}