Susan Howe's Renaissance Period: Metamorphosis and Representation in Pythagorean Silence and Defenestration of Prague.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Montgomery, Will
- Source
- Journal of American Studies. Dec2006, Vol. 40 Issue 3, p615-633. 19p.
- Subject
- *POETRY (Literary form)
*POETICS
*METAMORPHOSIS
*RENAISSANCE
- Language
- ISSN
- 0021-8758
The article discusses the metamorphosis and representation of ideas in the poetry of Susan Howe. The reflection focuses on the motifs drawn from the literature of the Renaissance. The poems include "Pythagorean Silence" and "Defenestration of Prague" which were published at the beginning of the 1980s. It is stated that her version of the metamorphosis is a passing-into-statis that retains spirit within a physical universe.