Poetic priesthood in the seventeenth century : reformed ministry and radical verse / Tessie Prakas.
"Poetic Priesthood reads seventeenth-century devotional verse as staging a surprising competition between poetry and the established church. The work of John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, John Milton, and Thomas Traherne suggests that the demands of faith are better understood by poet...
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2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Poetic Priesthood in the Seventeenth Century: Reformed Ministry and Radical Verse
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction "Power beside the office of a pulpit": Reformed Ministry, Radical Verse
- Reformed Ministry
- The Ministry of the Word
- Radical Verse
- Poetic Priesthood
- 1: "Numbred, and measured, and weighed": John Donne and the Meaning of Metaphor
- Metaphor and Mis-devotion
- Poetry in the Pulpit
- Reading between the Arrows
- 2: "O let thy blessed Spirit bear a part": Communal Music in George Herbert's The Temple
- "A mark to aim at": Ministry and Music
- "The best sort of melody and music": Antiphonal Verse
- "Three parts vied": Musical Union
- 3: "One friendly flood": Richard Crashaw's Baptismal Poetics
- "Baptism blends them all": Line and Image
- "Ling'ring fair": For Irresolution and Delay?
- "An eye, but not a weeping one": New Perspectives
- "Charged to look on": The Woman's Place
- 4: "Separate to God": Self-Centered Syntax in John Milton's Samson Agonistes
- "Separate to God": Samson's Solipsism
- "I this pomp have brought to Dagon": Confessional Conflict
- "I mean to show you of my strength": Monstrous Ministry
- Coda: "A Pulpit in my Mind: "Thomas Traherne's Silent Ministry
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- II.
- III.
- Works Cited
- Index