The Poetry of Religious Sorrow in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9780521896696 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 254 str.

Gary Kuchar

Opis

A new interpretation of the relations between theology and poetry in Milton, Donne, Shakespeare and others.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The poetry of tears and the ghost of Robert Southwell in Shakespeare's Richard II and Milton's Paradise Lost; 2. The poetry of tears and the metaphysics of Grief: Richard Crashaw's 'The Weeper'; 3. The poetry of tears and the metaphysics of grief: Andrew Marvell's 'Eyes and Tears'; 4. Sad delight: theology and Marian iconography in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum; 5. Petrarchism and repentance in John Donne's Holy Sonnets; 6. John Donne and the poetics of belatedness: typology, trauma, and testimony in An Anatomy of the World; Conclusion.