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Furor Poeticus in the Renaissance and Its Reception

Furor Poeticus in the Renaissance and Its Reception

Ruiz de Vergara Olmos, Ekaitz

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions

Literary CriticismReligion General Poetry Criticism

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ISBN10: 3032210194
ISBN13: 9783032210197
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: May 22 2026
Pages: 287
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.26 Depth: 8.31
Language: English

This volume provides an analysis of the constitution of the idea of furor poeticus (poetic frenzy), the conception of the poet as an individual inspired and possessed by a kind of divine madness. This idea, deeply rooted in the Platonic tradition, was conceptualized in the Renaissance by Marsilio Ficino and his followers, who spread it throughout Europe in the sixteenth century. The first part of the book offers a comparative approach to the theory of furor poeticus in little-studied Italian humanists such as Francesco Zorzi and Alessandro Farra, who combined Neoplatonism with other popular currents of the time such as Orphism or the Christian Kabbalah. The second part of the volume aims to show that there is no abrupt break between Renaissance and Romantic poetics, as is sometimes claimed, and reveals new connections between different authors of these periods.

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