Full Description
The poetry of Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne represents "an attempt to shape their lives and verse around the fact of divine presence and influence," writes Sharon Seelig. The relationship between belief and expression in these three metaphysical poets is the subject of this deeply perceptive study.
Each of these poets held to some extent the notion of dual reality, of the world as indicative of a higher reality, but their responses to this tradition vary greatly -- from the ongoing struggle between God and the poet of The Temple, which finally transforms the materials of everyday life and worship; to the more difficult unity of Silex Scintillans, with its tension between illumination and resignation; to the ecstatic proclamations of Thomas Traherne, whose sense of divine reality at first seems so strong as to destroy the characteristic metaphysical tension between this world and the next. Seelig's study proceeds from individual poems to the whole work, exploring the relation of cosmology and religious experience to poetic form.
Contents
A Greatness of Olympic Proportions
Machiavelli, The Olympic Ideal, and The Southern Arrow
What's More Than Gold
The Olympics and the Spirit of the Ancient Greeks
Go Tell the Spartans: HOnor, Courage, and Excellence in the Ancient Olympic Games
Soul of an Olympian
More than Games: Olympism as a Moral Approach to Sport
Olympism between Individualism and Transnationalism
Citius, Altius, Fortius, Virtuous
The Olympics and Steroids
What's Wrong with Olympic Boxing?
Should the Olympics Be the Very Best?
The Strong Men Keep A Comin': African American Athletic Performance and the Philosophy of Resistance
Olympic Amazons and the Cold War: The Rise and Fall of Gender Radicalism
Buns of Gold, Silver, Bronze: The State of Olympic Women's Beach Volleyball
Boycotting Ethics in the Olympics
Patriotism and the Olympic Games
The Spirit of the Games: Aesthetics and the Ideology of Globalization
