Christopher Stokes has written a timely and important book about the shaping of poetry and prayer in Romantic literature. Romantic Prayer: Reinventing the Poetics of Devotion, 1773-1832 discovers Romanticism as an experimental ground for reinventing English poetics of devotion.
Christopher Stokes is a Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature with the University of Exeter. His research spans canonical Romanticism, women writers of the Romantic era, and Quaker poetry, and he has a specific interest in the intersection of religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. He is the author of Coleridge, Language and the Sublime (2011) and has published widely in leading international journals such as Studies in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, and The Journal of Religion.