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The Vitruvian Source of Marvell’s Tortoise in “Upon Appleton House, To My Lord Fairfax

Goldblatt, Dylan

South Central Review, 2019, Vol.36 (3), p.68-84 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

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  • Título:
    The Vitruvian Source of Marvell’s Tortoise in “Upon Appleton House, To My Lord Fairfax
  • Autor: Goldblatt, Dylan
  • Assuntos: 1621-1678 ; Architecture ; Context ; Ecology ; Familiarity ; Houses ; Inference ; Influence ; Jones, Inigo ; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) ; Marvell, Andrew ; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678) ; Metaphor ; Modernity ; Poetry ; Poets ; Reasoning ; Reptiles & amphibians ; Reptiles in literature ; Scale and proportion ; Sources ; Testudinidae ; Vitruvius Pollio
  • É parte de: South Central Review, 2019, Vol.36 (3), p.68-84
  • Descrição: Since Marvell invokes the tortoise metaphor in an architectural context, it seems reasonable that an appropriate reading should possess an architectural tenor suited to classical allusions found elsewhere in the poem. Nearly all of the aforementioned studies of Marvell’s tortoise critically engage with the environmental aspects in the poem at the expense of the built environment. Since the tortoise metaphor operates in an architectural context, an examination of Marvell’s familiarity with architectural theory is apposite. 20 Recently, Anne M. Myers extends this line of reasoning to conclude that Marvell crafts “Upon Appleton House” in the same spirit as Wotton gathered material for his book. [...]Myers identifies Marvell’s affinity for finding similar proportions in nature and architecture as distinctly Vitruvian: Each line of the first stanza alludes to and then dismisses some part of the Vitruvian-style architectural treatise and, by inference, all architects trained in that tradition. Appleton House is simultaneously the product of its previous domestic builders, who supplied the foundation for its current designer, Webb. [...]the poem’s first couplet hints at the foreign influences upon Appleton House’s architecture, namely, those designers hailing from the Italian peninsula:
  • Editor: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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