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When a poet addresses a living person--whether friend or enemy, lover or sister--we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy--George Herbert with God, Walt Whitman with a …
When a poet addresses a living person, we recognise the intimacy being evoked, but what causes a poet to invoke invisible listeners? Helen Vendler explores this area of poetry, focusing on the works of George Herbert, Walt Whitman and John Ashbery.
When a poet addresses a living person--whether friend or enemy, lover or sister--we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy--George Herbert with God, Walt Whitman with a …
Eucharist and the Poetic Imagination in Early Modern England
by Read, Sophie
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A study of six canonical early modern lyric poets and the impact of the Eucharist on their work.
Eucharist and the poetic imagination in early modern England
by Read, Sophie
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Eucharist and the poetic imagination in early modern England
by Read, Sophie
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"The Reformation changed forever how the sacrament of the Eucharist was understood. This study of six canonical early modern lyric poets traces the literary afterlife of what was one of the greatest doctrinal shifts in English history. Sophie Read argues that the move from a lit…
Eucharist and the Poetic Imagination in Early Modern England
by Read, Sophie
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Type: Book
A study of six canonical early modern lyric poets and the impact of the Eucharist on their work.
The poetry of Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne represents ""an attempt to shape their lives and verse around the fact of divine presence and influence, "" writes Sharon Seelig. The relationship between belief and expression in these three metaphysical poets is the subject of this …
