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Feminine Engendered Faith: The Poetry of John Donne and Richard Crashaw

By Maureen Sabine (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1992
ISBN
978-1-349-39058-8, 978-0-230-37258-0
DOI
10.1057/9780230372580
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
35 MB (37148476 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XVI, 301\317
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Poetry and Poetics; Early Modern/Renaissance Liter

Description

This book proposes the poetic link between Donne and Crashaw during the English Reformation. In the first half of this work, Donne's Songs and Sonets, Verse Letters, religious works and Anniversaries are discussed as they reflect increasingly covert reverence for a holy mother figure. In the second half, Crashaw's juvenile poems and epigrams, verse in honour of the Virgin and Child, and mature contemplative verse are seen to express mystical homage to Mary and growing admiration for feminine powers of faith.

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