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New perspectives on the seventeenth-century English religious lyric
- Title
- New perspectives on the seventeenth-century English religious lyric / edited by John R. Roberts.
- Publication
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©1994.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Roberts, John Richard.
- Description
- viii, 335 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Written by some of the most prominent scholars in seventeenth-century studies, this unified collection of twelve original essays offers new perspectives on the English religious lyric. It does so by addressing in particular three important issues concerning seventeenth-century devotional poetry: Is the religious lyric a genre, or is it only a lyric poem on a religious theme? When we say "religious" lyric, are we sometimes too restrictive and narrow in our understanding of the word? To what extent do religious lyrics also participate in and reflect the social, political, and cultural contexts of the period in which they were written? These essays offer new insights into the religious poetry of Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Jonson, Herrick, Vaughan, and Marvell. In addition, modern theoretical criticism is discussed, and the editor has provided a selective, though extensive, bibliography of modern studies of the seventeenth-century religious lyric. Contributing significantly to a fuller understanding and greater appreciation of this elusive and fascinating genre, New Perspectives on the Seventeenth-Century English Religious Lyric will be of major importance to all scholars and students of the seventeenth century.
- Subject
- 1500-1700
- Geschichte 1600-1700
- Geschichte 1590-1660
- English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- Religious poetry, English > History and criticism
- Christian poetry, English > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- 18.05 English literature
- Christian poetry, English > Early modern
- English poetry > Early modern
- Intellectual life
- Religious poetry, English
- Christliche Lyrik
- Englisch
- Religiöse Lyrik
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Religieuze gedichten
- Engels
- Great Britain > Intellectual life > 17th century
- Great Britain
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "Curious frame" : the seventeenth-century religious lyric as genre / Helen Wilcox -- Enlarging the limits of the "religious lyric" : the case of Herrick's Hesperides / Achsah Guibbory -- Herrick, Vaughan, and the poetry of Anglican survivalism / Claude J. Summers -- The poetry of supplication : toward a cultural poetics of the religious lyric / Michael C. Schoenfeldt -- Liturgy, worship, and the sons of light / P.G. Stanwood -- "All things are bigge with jest" : wit as a means of grace / Judith Dundas -- Christ and Apollo in the seventeenth-century religious lyric / Stella P. Revard -- Donne, Herbert, and the postmodern muse / R.V. Young, Jr. -- The poetry of meditation : searching the memory / Louis L. Martz -- John Donne : "the Holy Ghost is amorous in his metaphors" / Anthony Low -- "Showing holy" : Herbert and the rhetoric of sanctity / Christopher Hodgkins -- Opening the religious lyric : Crashaw's ritual, liminal, and visual wounds / Eugene R. Cunnar -- The seventeenth-century English religious lyric : a selective bibliography of modern criticism, 1952-1990 / John R. Roberts.
- ISBN
- 0826209092
- 9780826209092
- LCCN
- 93030212
- OCLC
- ocm28676776
- 28676776
- SCSB-14503899
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library