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Verse and poetics in George Herbert and John Donne

Title: Verse and poetics in George Herbert and John Donne / Frances Cruickshank.
Author: Cruickshank, Frances.
Publication: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010.

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Description

134 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Innovative and highly readable, this study traces George Herbert's and John Donne's development of a distinct poetics through close readings of their poems, references to their letters, sermons, and prose treatises, and to other contemporary poets and theorists. In demonstrating a relationship between poetics and religious consciousness in Donne's and Herbert's verse, Frances Cruickshank explores their attitudes to the cultural, theological, and aesthetic enterprise of writing and reading verse. Cruickshank shows that Donne and Herbert regarded poetry as a mode not determined by its social and political contexts, but as operating in and on them with its own distinct set of aesthetic and intellectual values, and that ultimately, verse mattered as a privileged mode of religious discourse. This book is an important contribution to the ongoing scholarly dialogue about the nature of literary and cultural study of early modern England, and about the relationship between the writer and the world. Cruickshank confirms Donne's reputation as a fascinating and brilliant poetic figure while simultaneously rousing interest in Herbert by noting his unique merging of rusticity and urbanity and tranquility and uncertainty, allowing the reader to enter into these poets' imaginative worlds and to understand the literary genre they embraced and then transformed. --Publisher description.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : Poetry versus materialism -- The soul in paraphrase : writing and reading the religious lyric -- Taking figures : metaphor and theology in religious poetics -- Green matter and the figure of the garden -- The poetics of the Eucharist : poetry that matters -- Conclusion.

ISBN

9781409404804
1409404803
9781409404811
1409404811

LCCN

2010005513

OCLC

ocn528665855
528665855
SCSB-14697719

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library