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Zusatztext Parkas's book is a welcome and useful addition to studies of seventeenth-century religious writing. Informationen zum Autor Tessie Prakas is Assistant Professor of English at Scripps College. Her scholarship and teaching focus primarily on early modern poetry and poetics, as well as on the relationship between music and literature. Her first book, Poetic Priesthood, reads seventeenth-century devotional poetry as practicing a counter-liturgical mode of piety. She has published articles in The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, the John Donne Journal, Christianity and Literature, and Gender and Song in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2014), and she is working on a project that reads early modern literary and musical practice in the light of our current critical preoccupation with interdisciplinarity. Klappentext Studies the extent to which seventeenth-century devotional poetry moves beyond specific confessional and ecclesiastical frameworks, and argues that John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, and John Milton turned to verse to articulate a radical idea of religious devotion as distinct from the established church. Zusammenfassung Studies the extent to which seventeenth-century devotional poetry moves beyond specific confessional and ecclesiastical frameworks, and argues that John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, and John Milton turned to verse to articulate a radical idea of religious devotion as distinct from the established church. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: "Power beside the office of a pulpit": Reformed Ministry, Radical Verse 1: "Numbred, and measured, and weighed": John Donne and the Meaning of Metaphor 2: "O let thy Blessed Spirit bear a part": Communal Music in George Herbert's The Temple 3: "One friendly flood": Richard Crashaw's Baptismal Poetics 4: "Separate to God: Self-Centered Syntax in John Milton's Samson Agonistes Coda: "A Pulpit in my Mind": Thomas Traherne's Silent Ministry Works Cited ...
