Religious Trends in English Poetry / Hoxie Neale Fairchild.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fairchild, Hoxie Neale, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious poetry, English--History and criticism.

Religious poetry, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1939]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Studies English poetry written between 1740-1780 for the religious thoughts and feelings while stressing the historical rather than the aesthetic or metaphysical uses of religion.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

Part I. 1700-1720

I. Indifference, Negation, Scepticism

II. Poets of Controversy

III. Divine Poets

IV. Middle-Classicists

V. The Beginnings of Sentimentalism

Part II. 1720-1740

VI. Neither Christian Nor Very Sentimental

VII. Divine Poets

VIII. Non-Sentimental Christians

IX. Sentimentalism-Mild Cases

X. Sentimentalism-Severer Cases

XI. Pope and Thomson

XII. Protestantism and Sentimentalism

Appendix I. Primary Sources

Appendix II. Secondary Sources

Index of Names

Index of Topics

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88952-6

OCLC:

1100441446