Holy Living and Holy Dying: Volume Ii: Holy Dying

Zusatztext 'P.G. Stanwood has presented us with a reliable text based upon scrupulous collation of all the editions published during Taylor's lifetime ... Holy Living is in every way an achievement equal to that of Holy Dying; the two treatises are counterparts, each excellent in its kind. We can be grateful to this new edition for increasing our appreciation of a major writer of English prose and a major defender of the potential for good in human nature.'Louis L. Martz, Yale University, Modern Philology Klappentext This edition of Jeremy Taylor's famous work is the first edition critically edited and fully annotated since the beginning of the Oxford Movement over 150 years ago. The text is based on the first editions of 1650 and 1651, and includes textual variants, a full commentary, and a textual introduction. Zusammenfassung A scholarly edition of Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

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• Authors: Stanwood, Jeremy Taylor
• Assisted by: P. G. Stanwood (Editor), P. G. (Professor of English Stanwood (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.08.1989
• EAN: 9780198123491
• ISBN: 978-0-19-812349-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Oxford English Texts; Holy Living & Holy Dying; Oxford English Texts; Holy Living and Holy Dying; C Oet T Oxford English Texts
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Essays, RELIGION / Christianity / Anglican, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Essays, RELIGION / Christianity / Episcopalian, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Literary essays, Anglican and Episcopalian Churches, Anglican & Episcopalian Churches, Church of England