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Catholic Religious Poets

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Catholic Religious Poets

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While so much has been written about the English Protestant religious poets of the late 16th and earlier 17th centuries, there is relatively little study on the Catholic religious poets. Cousins fills this gap with his critical history of the Catholic religious poets major phase in the English Renaissance. In studying the Catholic religious poets from Southwell to Crashaw, this book focuses on the interplay in their verse between natively English and Counter-Reformation devotional literary traditions. Cousins puts forward particularly two arguments: that most of the more important Catholic poets write verse which expresses a Christ-centred vision of reality; that the divine agape receives almost as much attention in the Catholic poets' verse as does devout eros. In The Catholic Religious Poets Cousins defends the work of the Catholic religious poets arguing that this literary tradition deserves closer examination and higher valuation than it has usually been given.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
222
Release Date:
1991-07-25
Publication Date:
1991-07-25
Publisher:
Continnuum-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0722015704
ISBN13:
9780722015704
Weight:
286 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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