Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric / / Barbara Kiefer Lewalski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 735
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (564 p.)

Barbara Lewalski argues that the Protestant emphasis on the Bible as requiring philological and literary analysis fostered a fully developed theory of biblical aesthetics defining both poetic art and spiritual truth.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Emblems -- Chapter 1. "Is there in truth no beautie ?": Protestant Poetics and the Protestant Paradigm of Salvation -- Part I. Biblical Poetics -- Chapter 2. Biblical Genre Theory: Precepts and Models for the Religious Lyric -- Chapter 3. The Poetic Texture of Scripture: Tropes and Figures for the Religious Lyric -- Chapter 4. The Biblical Symbolic Mode: Typology and the Religious Lyric -- Part II. Ancillary Genres -- Chapter 5. Protestant Meditation: Kinds, Structures, and Strategies of Development for the Meditative Lyric -- Chapter 6. Protestant Emblematics: Sacred Emblems and Religious Lyrics -- Chapter 7. Art and the Sacred Subject: Sermon Theory, Biblical Personae, and Protestant Poetics -- Part III. The Flowering of the English Religious Lyric -- Chapter 8. John Donne: Writing after the Copy of a Metaphorical God -- Chapter 9. George Herbert: Artful Psalms from the Temple in the Heart -- Chapter 10. Henry Vaughan: Pleading in Groans of My Lord's Penning -- Chapter 11. Thomas Traherne: Naked Truth, Transparent Words, and the Renunciation of Metaphor -- Chapter 12. Edward Taylor: Lisps of Praise and Strategies for Self-Dispraise -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter