TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murray,Molly
TI  - The poetics of conversion in early modern English literature: verse and change from Donne to Dryden 
SN  - 9780511769757
AV  - PR508.C76 M87 2009eb
U1  - 821.009 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Conversion in literature
KW  - Christian poetry, English
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - Conversion dans la littérature
KW  - POETRY
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Early modern
KW  - fast
KW  - Versdichtung
KW  - gnd
KW  - Konversion
KW  - Religion, Motiv
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Religion
KW  - Motiv
KW  - Lyrik
KW  - englische
KW  - idsbb
KW  - Konversion (Relig.)
KW  - Christliche Lyrik
KW  - Geschichte 16. Jh
KW  - Geschichte 17. Jh
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Englisch
KW  - swd
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-198) and index; 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
N2  - 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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