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

Comparative Essays on the Poetry and Prose of John Donne and George Herbert : : Combined Lights / / ed. by Robert W. Reeder, Russell M. Hillier.

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 of the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
MitwirkendeR:
Balla, Angela,
Hillier, Russell M.,
Hodgkins, Christopher T.,
Hodgkins, Christopher,
Johnson, Kimberly,
Miller, Greg,
Miller-Blaise, Anne-Marie,
Narveson, Kate,
Reeder, Robert W.,
St. Hilaire, Danielle A.,
Stirling, Kirsten,
Wilcox, Helen,
HerausgeberIn:
Hillier, Russell M.,
Reeder, Robert W.,
Place / Publishing House:Newark : : University of Delaware Press, , [2021]
©2022
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Part 1 NEGATIVE THEOLOGY, POLITICAL THEORY, AND THE LYRIC
  • 1 • DONNE’S NEGATIVE THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS
  • 2 • PRAYER AS POLITICAL THEORY Conscience, Sovereignty, and Natural Law in Donne and Herbert
  • Part 2 ENCOUNTERS Exchange and Collaboration
  • 3 • “RESPLENDENCE OF WOMEN, MEN’S MEANS TO ZEAL” Fashioning Female Sanctity in Donne and Herbert’s Commemoration of Lady Danvers
  • 4 • CROSSINGS Sacramental Signs across the Verse of Donne and Herbert
  • 5 • CRUCIFYING CRAFT A Donne-Herbert Dialogue
  • Part 3 SIN, SALVATION, AND ASSURANCE
  • 6 • “EXTREME AUDACITY OF PENITENTIAL HUMILITY” Devotions 10 and the Donne-Herbert Dichotomy
  • 7 • IMAGINING PRAYER IN DONNE’S DEVOTIONS AND HERBERT’S POEMS OF COMPLAINT
  • 8 • RECUPERATING THE INCAPACITIES OF THE FALLEN SELF IN DONNE AND HERBERT Possibility and Promise
  • Part 4 APPRAISALS
  • 9 • DONNE’S “COMEDY OF EROS” AND HERBERT’S “WORLD OF MIRTH”
  • 10 • “THE DOT OVER THE I” How Donne and Herbert Close Their Poems
  • APPENDIX Donne’s and Herbert’s Latin Poems on the Seal of Christ on the Anchor
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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