This authentication occurs automatically, and it is not possible to sign out of an IP authenticated account.Ĭhoose this option to get remote access when outside your institution. Typically, access is provided across an institutional network to a range of IP addresses. If you are a member of an institution with an active account, you may be able to access content in one of the following ways: Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. This chapter also explores the perceptions of time and space of Andrew Marvell, Edward Herbert, Thomas Traherne, and Richard Crashaw. When the imagination of Henry Vaughan constantly moves in the universe of retrospection, memory becomes an effort at reviviscence. This perception of the present is modulated in the poetry of George Herbert through an Augustinian ‘distension’ of the soul, allowing his attention to embrace a larger space of time. John Donne's passionate attention directed to the present moment as inwardly apprehended seems to imply a similar inner experience of time. ![]() ![]() Yet a historical continuity underlies the divergences: the intuition of the instant was related to a progression in subjectivity and inwardness. Alongside new modes of apprehension, older modes of perception persisted. The 17th century was a period of transition traversed by crosscurrents, and the originality of the English metaphysical poets proceeded from the very diversity of their modes of thought.
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