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Comparative Essays on the Poetry and Prose of John Donne and George Herbert : Combined Lights /

"This book brings together ten essays on John Donne and George Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume represents the first collection of its kind to draw close connections between these two distinguished early modern thinkers and poets who are justly coupled because...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Reeder, Robert W., 1974- (Editor ), Hillier, Russell M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Negative Theology, Political Theory, and the Lyric
  • Donne's Negative Theology of the Cross / Kirsten Stirling
  • Prayer as Political Theory: Conscience, Sovereignty, and Natural Law in Donne and Herbert / Angela Balla
  • Part II. Encounters: Exchange and Collaboration
  • Resplendence of Women, Men's Means to Zeal: Fashioning Female Sanctity in Donne and Herbert's Commemoration of Lady Danvers / Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise
  • Crossings: Sacramental Signs across the Verse of Donne and Herbert / Kimberly Johnson
  • Crucifying Craft: A Donne-Herbert Dialogue / Greg Miller
  • Part III. Sin, Salvation, and Assurance
  • Extreme Audacity of Penitential Humility: Devotions 10 and the Donne-Herbert Dichotomy / Robert W. Reeder
  • Imagining Prayer in Donne's Devotions and Herbert's Poems of Complaint / Kate Narveson
  • Recuperating the Incapacities of the Fallen Self in Donne and Herbert: Possibility and Promise / Danielle A. St. Hilaire
  • Part IV. Appraisals
  • Donne's 'Comedy of Eros' and Herbert's World of Mirth' / Christopher Hodgkins
  • The Dot over the i: How Donne and Herbert Close Their Poems / Helen Wilcox
  • Appendix: Donne and Herbert's Latin Poems on the Seal of Christ on the Anchor / Catherine R. Freis, Richard Freis, and Greg Miller, trans.