Frances Cruickshank

Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne

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Produktbeschreibung

Innovative and highly readable, this study traces George Herbert's and John Donne's development of a distinct poetics through close readings of their poetry, as well as letters, sermons, and prose treatises. In demonstrating a relationship between poetics and religious consciousness, Frances Cruickshank explores the poets' privileging of verse, and makes an important contribution to the ongoing scholarly dialogue about the nature of literary and cultural study of early modern England

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 218g
• ISBN-13: 9781138379657
• ISBN-10: 1138379654
• Artikelnr.: 55101194

Autorenporträt

Frances Cruickshank is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Cultural Inquiry at the Australian National University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: poetry versus materialism
The soul in paraphrase: writing and reading the religious lyric
Taking figures: metaphor and theology in religious poetics
Green matter and the figure of the garden
The poetics of the Eucharist: poetry that matters
Conclusion
Works cited
Index.