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The Religious Sublime

Christian Poetry and Critical Tradition in 18th-Century England

by David B Morris

  • Paperback
  • 274 pages
  • Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.6 cm

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This perceptive, carefully documented study challenges the traditional assumption that the supernatural virtually disappeared from eighteenth-century poetry as a result of the growing rationalistic temper of the late seventeenth century. Mr. Morris shows that the religious poetry of eighteenth-century England, while not equaling the brilliant work of seventeenth-century and Romantic writers, does reveal a vital and serious effort to create a new kind of sacred poetry which would rival the sublimity of Milton and of the Bible itself. Tracing the major varieties of religious poetry written throughout the century-by major figures and by their now vanished contemporaries-the author explains how later poets and critics made significant departures from the established norms. These changes in religious poetry thus become a valuable means of understanding the shift from a neoclassical to a Romantic theory of literature.
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  • Author

    David B Morris

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    The University Press of Kentucky

  • Published

    July 2014

  • Weight

    350g

  • Page Count

    274

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780813153612

  • ISBN-10

    0813153611

  • Eden Code

    4298295

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