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The Life Significance of French Baroque Poetry

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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.

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ISBN: 9780820406398
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Author: Marlies Kronegger
Publisher: P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 160 pages
Series: American University Studies.
Genres: Literary studies: general