Wendy Roberts provides a masterful account of the ways in which poetry enabled new experiences of charismatic religion in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Like the poems it expertly examines, Awakening Verse will delight and instruct both general readers and specialists in the histories of religion and poetics. The book is deeply researched and carefully argued, and yet still open to exploring the unexpected detours its subjects take.
Wendy Raphael Roberts is Assistant Professor of English at The University at Albany, SUNY.