Poetic priesthood in the seventeenth century : reformed ministry and radical verse / Tessie Prakas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prakas, Tessie, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian poetry, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Christian poetry, English.

Devotional poetry, English--History and criticism.

Devotional poetry, English.

Faith in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This text studies the extent to which seventeenth-century devotional poetry moves beyond specific confessional and ecclesiastical frameworks, and argues that John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, and John Milton turned to verse to articulate a radical idea of religious devotion as distinct from the established church.

Contents:

Cover

Poetic Priesthood in the Seventeenth Century: Reformed Ministry and Radical Verse

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction "Power beside the office of a pulpit": Reformed Ministry, Radical Verse

Reformed Ministry

The Ministry of the Word

Radical Verse

Poetic Priesthood

1: "Numbred, and measured, and weighed": John Donne and the Meaning of Metaphor

Metaphor and Mis-devotion

Poetry in the Pulpit

Reading between the Arrows

2: "O let thy blessed Spirit bear a part": Communal Music in George Herbert's The Temple

"A mark to aim at": Ministry and Music

"The best sort of melody and music": Antiphonal Verse

"Three parts vied": Musical Union

3: "One friendly flood": Richard Crashaw's Baptismal Poetics

"Baptism blends them all": Line and Image

"Ling'ring fair": For Irresolution and Delay?

"An eye, but not a weeping one": New Perspectives

"Charged to look on": The Woman's Place

4: "Separate to God": Self-Centered Syntax in John Milton's Samson Agonistes

"Separate to God": Samson's Solipsism

"I this pomp have brought to Dagon": Confessional Conflict

"I mean to show you of my strength": Monstrous Ministry

Coda: "A Pulpit in my Mind: "Thomas Traherne's Silent Ministry

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II.

III.

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 6, 2022).

ISBN:

9780192671332

0192671332

9780191947902

0191947903

9780192671325

0192671324