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From The Harvard Libaray Bulletin "Material Poetry of the Renaissance/ The Renaissance of Material Poetry", Edited by Roland Greene, Summer 1992, Vol. 3, No. 2


Hrabanus Marus "De adoratione crucis ab opifice / De Laudibus Sanctae Crucis" Augsburg, ca. 845

Simias Rhodius, "Wings of Eros in Theocritus / Eidullia Theokritou Triakonta" ca. 325 B.C.

Giovanni Battista Palatino Sonetto "Figurato, Part I, Compendio del Gran Volume de l'Arte del Ben Scrivere" Rome, 1566

Giovanni Battista Palatino Sonetto "Figurato, Part II, Compendio del Gran Volume de l'Arte del Ben Scrivere" Rome, 1566

Richard Willes, "Ara Christiani Religioni Poematum Liber" London, 1573

Juan Diaz Rengifo, "Aquinas" Arte Poetica Espanola" Barcelona, 1726

Henry Lok, "Square Poem in Honor of Elizabeth I Sundry Christian Passions" 1597

George Wither "Phil'arte's Lament Faire-Virtue / The Mistresse of Phil'arete" London, 1622

Plate 1 from Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz, "Primus calamus ob oculos ponens metametricam" Rome 1663

Plate 2 from Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz, "Primus calamus ob oculos ponens metametricam" Rome 1663

Plate 3 from Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz, "Primus calamus ob oculos ponens metametricam" Rome 1663

George Herbert, "Easter Wings / The Temple" Cambridge, 1633



RELATED RESOURCE:

Roland Greene on "The Concrete Historical" in UbuWeb Papers