Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 74 IS - 316 T2 - Review of English Studies SP - 635-51 ID - bbbo27 T1 - "Shakespeare's Metaphysical Poem: Allegory, Metaphysics, and Aesthetics in 'The Phoenix and Turtle'" AU - Tregear, Ted PY - 2023 DA - 2026 LA - English AB - Argues that Shakespeare’s allegorical poem “The Phoenix and The Turtle” operates as experiment in metaphysical poetry in that it draws on language of metaphysics, probes its canonical problems, and explores link between poetic and philosophical thinking. Demonstrates that love between phoenix and turtle evokes dilemma of the particular and the universal, felt most strongly in realm of aesthetic experience. ER -