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The poetics of conversion in early modern English literature : = verse and change from Donne to Dryden /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The poetics of conversion in early modern English literature :/ Molly Murray.
Reminder of title:	verse and change from Donne to Dryden /
Author:	Murray, Molly,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 205 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Christianity in literature. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511770562
ISBN:	9780511770562 (ebook)

The poetics of conversion in early modern English literature : = verse and change from Donne to Dryden /
Murray, Molly,

The poetics of conversion in early modern English literature :verse and change from Donne to Dryden /Molly Murray. - 1 online resource (xi, 205 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction : toward a poetics of conversion -- 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.

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.

ISBN: 9780511770562 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

564830
Christianity in literature.

LC Class. No.: PR508.C65 / M87 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 821.009

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