Florian Klaeger
Biographic Data
| ID | 9609488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Florian Klaeger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Florian |
| FAMILY NAME | Klaeger |
| SIGNATURE | KLAEGER F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1569-336X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Sidereal Messages: Print Letters in Restoration Astronomical Writing
Astronomy, a paradigmatic observational discipline of early modern ‘science’, relied on epistolary communication for coordinating practitioners across the world, publishing discoveries and theories, and seeking their confirmation from other virtuosi. Epistolary form ‘travelled’ from an individual exchange between scholars, via the print publication of such letters for the benefit of a wider readership, to the framing of bespoke isagogic textbooks…
“The planet-like music of poetry”: The Music of the Spheres and the Poetics of Mimesis in Spenser’s Bower of Bliss and Milton’s Nativity Ode
This essay explores two variations of the commonplace allegorical identification between poetry and the music of the spheres in the English Renaissance. In Edmund Spenser’s Bower of Bliss episode from The Faerie Queene, Book II (pub. 1590), and John Milton’s “Nativity Ode” (pub. 1645), it highlights the inversion of the trope, by which poetry is contrasted, rather than identified, with the music of the spheres. That practice is traced back to Geo…
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“The planet-like music of poetry”: The Music of the Spheres and the Poetics of Mimesis in Spenser’s Bower of Bliss and Milton’s Nativity Ode
This essay explores two variations of the commonplace allegorical identification between poetry and the music of the spheres in the English Renaissance. In Edmund Spenser’s Bower of Bliss episode from The Faerie Queene, Book II (pub. 1590), and John Milton’s “Nativity Ode” (pub. 1645), it highlights the inversion of the trope, by which poetry is contrasted, rather than identified, with the music of the spheres. That practice is traced back to Geo…
Sidereal Messages: Print Letters in Restoration Astronomical Writing
Astronomy, a paradigmatic observational discipline of early modern ‘science’, relied on epistolary communication for coordinating practitioners across the world, publishing discoveries and theories, and seeking their confirmation from other virtuosi. Epistolary form ‘travelled’ from an individual exchange between scholars, via the print publication of such letters for the benefit of a wider readership, to the framing of bespoke isagogic textbooks…
Art (1 works) · Astronomy (1 works) · BLISS (1 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (1 works) · Historical Astronomy and Related Studies (1 works) · History (1 works) · History and Developments in Astronomy (1 works) · History of Science and Medicine (1 works) · Literature (1 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (1 works)