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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