Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist in Early Modern Religious Poetry / / Ryan Netzley.
The courtly love tradition had a great influence on the themes of religious poetry-just as an absent beloved could be longed for passionately, so too could a distant God be the subject of desire. But when authors began to perceive God as immanently available, did the nature and interpretation of dev...
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| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Desiring Sacraments and Reading Real Presence in Seventeenth- Century Religious Poetry
- 1. Take and Taste, Take and Read: Desiring, Reading, and Taking Presence in George Herbert's The Temple
- 2. Reading Indistinction: Desire, Indistinguishability, and Metonymic Reading in Richard Crashaw's Religious Lyrics
- 3. Loving Fear: Affirmative Anxiety in John Donne's Divine Poems
- 4. Desiring What Has Already Happened: Reading Prolepsis and Immanence in John Milton's Early Poems and Paradise Regained
- Conclusion: Reading Is Love
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index