Holy Living and Holy Dying: Volume I: Holy Living

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 Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living and Holy Dying are two of the most famous prose works of 17th-century English literature and among the greatest examples of Anglican spirituality. These new editions are the first critically edited and fully annotated editions to appear since 1842. The text is based on the first editions of 1650 and 1651 and includes textual variants, a full commentary, a textual introduction, and a general introduction recounting Taylor's life and the intellectual background of his devotional classics. Zusammenfassung A scholarly edition of Holy Living by Jeremy Taylor. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Product details

• Authors: Stanwood, Jeremy Taylor
• Assisted by: P G Stanwood (Editor), P. G. Stanwood (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.08.1989
• EAN: 9780198127055
• ISBN: 978-0-19-812705-5
• No. of pages: 420
• Series: Oxford English Texts; Holy Living & Holy Dying; Oxford English Texts; C Oet T Oxford English Texts
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology