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Informationen zum Autor Ryan Netzley is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Klappentext Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist analyzes the work of prominent early modern writers--including John Milton, Richard Crashaw, John Donne, and George Herbert--whose religious poetry presented parallels between sacramental desire and the act of understanding written texts. Zusammenfassung Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist analyzes the work of prominent early modern writers—including John Milton, Richard Crashaw, John Donne, and George Herbert—whose religious poetry presented parallels between sacramental desire and the act of understanding written texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Desiring Sacraments and Reading Real Presencein Seventeenth-Century Religious Poetry Take and Taste, Take and Read: Desiring, Reading, and Taking Presence in George Herbert’s The Temple Reading Indistinction: Desire, Indistinguishability, and Metonymic Reading in Richard Crashaw’s Religious Lyrics Loving Fear: Affirmative Anxiety in John Donne’s Divine Poems 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
