{"product_id":"hexameral-poetics-process-and-vitality-in-early-modern-literature-paperback","title":"Hexameral Poetics: Process and Vitality in Early Modern Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGiulio Pertile\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHexameral Poetics \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of a forgotten genre: poetry about the creation of the world. The hexameral poems, as they are known, expand at length on the six days of Creation described in the first chapter of the Bible. Yet where we might expect such works to be conservative in nature, defending a traditional cosmos and ceding creative power to God, Pertile argues that they undertake an unprecedented investigation into the nature of our relationship to the universe. Foregrounding their own creative processes, they seek at the same time to reconcile their inescapable artifice with the world as already created. What follows from this attempt is a new model of creativity itself, incompatible with the traditional idea of creation \u003ci\u003eex nihilo. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRather than emphasizing their absolute sovereignty, poets from Du Bartas to Milton thus seek out a poetics that would bridge the difference between human and divine creators without simply collapsing one into the other--a poetics free of domination and in alignment rather than in contest with the generative powers of the cosmos. In so doing they are not merely powerfully modern but may also lead us to revise our notions of modernity itself. Drawing on French, Italian, Spanish, and English poetry, \u003ci\u003eHexameral Poetics \u003c\/i\u003ebrings a transnational approach to urgent questions concerning the intersection of poetry, religion, and human impact on the planet at the origins of modernity.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHexameral Poetics \u003c\/i\u003eis breathtaking in its learning and scope. Pertile is a brilliant close reader of lyric metaphors, verse enjambment, and the allusive play of language in a literary form embedded in exegesis and hermeneutics while reaching beyond language to the natural world.\"--\u003cb\u003eJulia Reinhard Lupton\u003c\/b\u003e, University of California, Irvine \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Pertile's brilliant and learned book reveals the intellectual depth and radical aesthetic possibilities of early modern European hexameral poetry. \u003ci\u003eHexameral Poetics \u003c\/i\u003eshows how this neglected tradition provides the period's most profound meditations on the relation between God's acts of Creation and the ongoing human activity of creation. Pertile rewrites the prehistory of modernity's fixation on creativity by recovering and, in effect, redeeming the powers of an all but forgotten genre.\"--\u003cb\u003eTimothy Harrison\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Chicago \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eHexameral Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a forgotten genre: poetry about the creation of the world. The hexameral poems, as they are known, expand at length on the six days of Creation described in the first chapter of the Bible. Yet where we might expect such works to be conservative in nature, defending a traditional cosmos and ceding creative power to God, Pertile argues that they undertake an unprecedented investigation into the nature of our relationship to the universe. Foregrounding their own creative processes, they seek at the same time to reconcile their inescapable artifice with the world as already created. What follows from this attempt is a new model of creativity itself, incompatible with the traditional idea of creation \u003ci\u003eex nihilo. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRather than emphasizing their absolute sovereignty, poets from Du Bartas to Milton thus seek out a poetics that would bridge the difference between human and divine creators without simply collapsing one into the other--a poetics free of domination and in alignment rather than in contest with the generative powers of the cosmos. In so doing they are not merely powerfully modern but may also lead us to revise our notions of modernity itself. Drawing on French, Italian, Spanish, and English poetry, \u003ci\u003eHexameral Poetics \u003c\/i\u003e brings a transnational approach to urgent questions concerning the intersection of poetry, religion, and human impact on the planet at the origins of modernity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGiulio J. Pertile\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St. Andrews.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGiulio J. Pertile \u003c\/b\u003eis Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eFeeling Faint\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eAffect and Consciousness in the Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eImagining Andrew Marvell at 400 \u003c\/i\u003e(2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 273\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 04, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48821727920377,"sku":"9781531513962","price":59.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/pY_c_7ZmZ79781531513962.webp?v=1786786631","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/hexameral-poetics-process-and-vitality-in-early-modern-literature-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}