The Religious Sublime: Christian Poetry and Critical Tradition in 18th-Century England
This perceptive, carefully documented study challenges the traditional assumption that the supernatural virtually disappeared from eighteenth-century poetry as a result of the growing rationalistic temper of the late seventeenth century. Mr. Morris shows that the religious poetry of eighteenth-century England, while not equaling the brilliant work of seventeenth-century and Romantic writers, does reveal a vital and serious effort to create a new kind of sacred poetry which would rival the sublimity of Milton and of the Bible itself. Tracing the major varieties of religious poetry written throughout the century - by major figures and by their…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8131-5361-2
- EAN: 9780813153612
- Produktnummer: 37111972
- Verlag: Univ Pr Of Kentucky
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 274 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.6 cm 349 g
- Gewicht: 349
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