The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics by Jessie Hock

The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics

Jessie Hock

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In The Erotics of Materialism, Jessie Hock maps the intersection of poetry and natural philosophy in the early modern reception of Lucretius and his De rerum natura. Subtly revising an ancient atomist tradition that condemned poetry as frivolous, ...

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