All Wonders in One Sight : : The Christ Child among the Elizabethan and Stuart Poets / / Theresa M. Kenney.
In the seventeenth century many leading poets wrote poems about Christ’s infancy, though charm and sweetness were not the leading note. Because these poets were university-educated classicists – many of them also Catholic or Anglican priests – they wrote in an elevated style, with elevated language,...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Sacrament, Time, and Space in the Tudor and Stuart English Nativity Lyric
- 2 The Christ Child on Fire: Southwell’s Mighty Babe
- 3 “Kisse Him, and with Him into Egypt Goe”: John Donne and the Christ Child of “Nativitie”
- 4 “My Saviour’s Face”: George Herbert’s “Starre” and the Vanishing Christ Child
- 5 “Wisest Fate Says No”: Milton’s Nativity Ode
- 6 “We Kis’t the Cradle of Our King”: Affection, Awe, and Abridging the Laws of Time in Crashaw
- Conclusion: The Christ Child: Little Boy Lost
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index