ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book is exciting not only because it recognizes invention and verbal technology as early modern practises worthy of study, but because it gestures towards the marriage of historicism and formalism that must resolve the tension of the last century. The poetic mode comprehends all artifacts as potential metaphoric carriers, particularly those sanctioned in the canonical imagination, but any which furnish the immediate context of the poetic conscience can be turned by verse into vessels, and thence to sacraments. as artifacts are thus other than, and more than, the context from which they emerge, but they are not as new historicists labour to prove disconnected from that context. Poems, as new historicism points out, are not discrete, but they are self-containing.
