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Protestant poetics and the seventeenth-century religious lyric / Barbara Kiefer Lewalski.
LIBRA PR545.R4 L48
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, 1931-2018.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian poetry, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- Christian poetry, English.
- English poetry--Protestant authors--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Protestantism and literature--History--17th century.
- Protestantism and literature.
- History.
- Christian poetry, English--History and criticism.
- Aesthetics, Modern--17th century.
- Aesthetics, Modern.
- Poetics--History--17th century.
- Poetics.
- Protestantism in literature.
- Christian poetry, English--Early modern.
- Protestant authors.
- Genre:
- History.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 536 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1979]
- Contents:
- ch. 1. "Is there in truth no beautie?": Protestant poetics and the Protestant paradigm of salvation
- pt. 1. Biblical poetics: ch. 2. Biblical genre theory: precepts and models for the religious lyric
- ch. 3. The poetic texture of scripture: tropes and figures for the religious lyric
- ch. 4. The biblical symbolic mode: typology and the religious lyric
- pt. 2. Ancillary genres: ch. 5. Protestant meditation: kinds, structures, and strategies of development for the meditative lyric
- ch. 6. Protestant emblematics: sacred emblems and religious lyrics
- ch. 7. Art and the sacred subject: sermon theory, biblical personae, and Protestant poetics
- pt. 3. The flowering of the English religious lyric: ch. 8. John Donne: writing after the copy of a metaphorical God
- ch. 9. George Herbert: artful psalms from the temple in the heart
- ch. 10. Henry Vaughan: pleading in groans of my Lord's penning
- ch. 11. Thomas Traherne: naked truth, transparent words, and the renunciation of metaphor
- ch. 12. Edward Taylor: lisps of praise and strategies for self-dispraise.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Conference on Christianity & Literature Book of the Year Award, Winner, 1979
- ISBN:
- 0691063958
- 9780691063959
- OCLC:
- 4592691
- Online:
- Publisher description
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