Metaphysical Poetry by Paul Negri (Editor)Requirements: ePUB Reader, 295 kbOverview: Metaphysical poetry, a term generally applied to the works of a group of English poets of the seventeenth century, is among the most read and studied verse in English literature, having proved enduringly popular and major influence on many twentieth-century poets. Dramatic and conversational in […]
Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism Between Leibniz and Marx by Leif Weatherby (Forms of Living)Requirements: PDF Reader, 8.69 mbOverview: Around 1800, German romanticism developed a philosophy this study calls "Romantic organology." Scientific and philosophical notions of biological function and speculative thought converged to form the discourse that Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ reconstructs-a metaphysics meant […]
The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry by T. S. EliotRequirements: ePUB or MOBI Reader, 1.4MBOverview: Few admirers of the criticism of T.S. Eliot have been able to read anything but summaries or extracts from the eight unpublished lectures on metaphysical poetry that he gave at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1926, or the revised sequence delivered in […]
Postmetaphysical Thinking: Philosophical Essays by Jürgen Habermas , William Mark Hohengarten (Translator)Requirements: ePUB, MOBI or AZW3 Reader, 1.6MBOverview: This collection of Habermas’s recent essays on philosophical topics continues the analysis begun in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. In a short introductory essay, he outlines the sources of twentieth-century philosophizing, its major themes, and the range […]
Metaphysical Dog by Frank BidartRequirements: ePUB Reader, 420 KBOverview: National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerWinner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for PoetryA National Book Award Finalist A vital, searching new collection from one of finest American poets at work today.In "Those Nights," Frank Bidart writes: "We who could get / somewhere through / words through / […]