The poetics of conversion in early modern English literature : verse and change from Donne to Dryden / Molly Murray, Columbia University

By:

Murray, Molly

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780511769757
051176975X
9780511768071
0511768079

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Poetics of conversion in early modern English literature.DDC classification:

821.009 22

LOC classification:

PR508.C76 M87 2009eb

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HI 1151

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Contents:

William Alabaster's lyric turn -- John Donne and the language of de-nomination -- Richard Crashaw and the gender of conversion -- Versing and reversing in the poetry of John Dryden -- Afterword : Eliot's inheritance and the criticism of conversion

Summary: Christians in post-Reformation England inhabited a culture of conversion. Required to choose among rival forms of worship, many would cross - and often recross - the boundary between Protestantism and Catholicism. This study considers the poetry written by such converts, from the reign of Elizabeth I to that of James II, concentrating on four figures: John Donne, William Alabaster, Richard Crashaw, and John Dryden. Murray offers a context for each poet's conversion within the era's polemical and controversial literature. She also elaborates on the formal features of the poems themselves, demonstrating how the language of poetry could express both spiritual and ecclesiastical change with particular vividness and power. Proposing conversion as a catalyst for some of the most innovative devotional poetry of the period, both canonical and uncanonical, this study will be of interest to all specialists in early modern English literature

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Christians in post-Reformation England inhabited a culture of conversion. Required to choose among rival forms of worship, many would cross - and often recross - the boundary between Protestantism and Catholicism. This study considers the poetry written by such converts, from the reign of Elizabeth I to that of James II, concentrating on four figures: John Donne, William Alabaster, Richard Crashaw, and John Dryden. Murray offers a context for each poet's conversion within the era's polemical and controversial literature. She also elaborates on the formal features of the poems themselves, demonstrating how the language of poetry could express both spiritual and ecclesiastical change with particular vividness and power. Proposing conversion as a catalyst for some of the most innovative devotional poetry of the period, both canonical and uncanonical, this study will be of interest to all specialists in early modern English literature