Literature & Sacrament: The Sacred and the Secular in John DonneDuquesne University Press, 1999 - 338 pages In this innovative study, Theresa DiPasquale examines John Donne's theological and ideological responses to the Reformation debate over the sacraments, and how this debate greatly influenced his view of the written word as visible sign and of the poet as the quasi-divine maker of that sign, and of the reader as its receiver. This study, then, attempts to reconstruct Donne's own, quite nuanced theology of sacrament to provide a guide to his poetics, and, in particular, to his conception of the exchange between author and reader." |
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... poetry as ineffective signs , the poetic equivalent of a " bare " Zwinglian sacrament ; in other poems , he uses various strategies to invest his poetry with a secular equivalent of sacramental efficacy . " The Canonization " is an ...
... poetry as ineffective signs , the poetic equivalent of a " bare " Zwinglian sacrament ; in other poems , he uses various strategies to invest his poetry with a secular equivalent of sacramental efficacy . " The Canonization " is an ...
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... poets of sev- enteenth century England " are not , in their poetry , so much militant proponents of the Reformation as Christians con- fronting God . " These poets , including Donne , " draw upon a number of Christian resources ...
... poets of sev- enteenth century England " are not , in their poetry , so much militant proponents of the Reformation as Christians con- fronting God . " These poets , including Donne , " draw upon a number of Christian resources ...
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... poetry worth writing ? The speaker of " Satyre II " has his doubts : Though Poëtry indeed be such a sinne As I thinke that brings dearths , and Spaniards in , Though like the Pestilence and old fashion'd love , Ridlingly it catch men ...
... poetry worth writing ? The speaker of " Satyre II " has his doubts : Though Poëtry indeed be such a sinne As I thinke that brings dearths , and Spaniards in , Though like the Pestilence and old fashion'd love , Ridlingly it catch men ...
Contents
ONE Sacramental Crossing | 29 |
Two Deigne at My Hands | 58 |
THREE Cunning Elements and Artful Turns | 101 |
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