Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The problem of the dark side of a love poet: an introduction and reassessment
- 2 In search of love's epistemology: affirming the role of the creative imagination
- 3 Embodying the sacred and ineffable: poetic forms of transcendence and paradise
- 4 Becoming what one sees: the unity and identity of poetic self
- 5 Struggle, light, and love's “sainct lieu”
- 6 “De mes trauaulx me bienheurantz ma peine”: love poetry as therapy
- Epilogue Scève, Mallarmé, and the art of transcendence
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in French
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The problem of the dark side of a love poet: an introduction and reassessment
- 2 In search of love's epistemology: affirming the role of the creative imagination
- 3 Embodying the sacred and ineffable: poetic forms of transcendence and paradise
- 4 Becoming what one sees: the unity and identity of poetic self
- 5 Struggle, light, and love's “sainct lieu”
- 6 “De mes trauaulx me bienheurantz ma peine”: love poetry as therapy
- Epilogue Scève, Mallarmé, and the art of transcendence
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in French
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- The Love Aesthetics of Maurice ScèvePoetry and Struggle, pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991