The Religious Sublime: Christian Poetry and Critical Tradition in 18th-Century England - Paperback
The Religious Sublime: Christian Poetry and Critical Tradition in 18th-Century England - Paperback
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by David B. Morris (Author)
This perceptive, carefully documented study challenges the traditional assumption that the supernatural virtually disappeared from eighteenth-century poetry as a result of the growing rationalistic temper of the late seventeenth century. Mr. Morris shows that the religious poetry of eighteenth-century England, while not equaling the brilliant work of seventeenth-century and Romantic writers, does reveal a vital and serious effort to create a new kind of sacred poetry which would rival the sublim
Author Biography
David B. Morris is an associate professor in the Department of Literature at American University.
