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Eucharist and the Poetic Imagination in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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Eucharist and the Poetic Imagination in Early Modern England (Paperback)
Series: Ideas in Context
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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 literal to a figurative understanding of the phrase
'this is my body' exerted a powerful imaginative pull on successive
generations. To illustrate this, she examines in detail the work of
Southwell, Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan and Milton, who between
them represent a broad range of doctrinal and confessional
positions, from the Jesuit Southwell to Milton's heterodox
Puritanism. Individually, each chapter examines how Eucharistic
ideas are expressed through a particular rhetorical trope;
together, they illuminate the continued importance of the
Eucharist's transformation well into the seventeenth century - not
simply as a matter of doctrine, but as a rhetorical and poetic
mode.
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