Author: John ReynoldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A View of Death: Or, the Soul's Departure from the World. A Philosophical Sacred Poem, with a Copious Body of Explanatory Notes, ... By J. Reynolds
Author: John ReynoldsA View of Death, Or, The Soul's Departure from the World
Author: John Reynolds (of Pembroke College, Oxford.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A View of Death: Or, the Soul's Departure from the World. A Philosophical Sacred Poem, with a Copious Body of Explanatory Notes, and Some Additional Composures. By J. Reynolds
Author: John ReynoldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A View of Death
Author: ReynoldsA View of Death, Or, The Soul's Departure from the World
Author: John ReynoldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A View of Death: Or, the Soul's Departure from the World. A Philosophical Sacred Poem, with a Copious Body of Explanatory Notes,
Author: John ReynoldsCulture and Authority in the Baroque
Author: Massimo CiavolellaPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802038387
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Culture and Authority in the Baroque explores the baroque across a wide range of disciplines, from poetics to politics, to the rituals of musical, dramatic, and religious performance.
A Protestant Purgatory
Author: Laurie ThronessPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351961993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
How did the penitentiary get its name? Why did the English impose long prison sentences? Did class and economic conflict really lie at the heart of their correctional system? In a groundbreaking study that challenges the assumptions of modern criminal justice scholarship, Laurie Throness answers many questions like these by exposing the deep theological roots of the judicial institutions of eighteenth-century Britain. The book offers a scholarly account of the passage of the Penitentiary Act of 1779, combining meticulous attention to detail with a sweeping theological overview of the century prior to the Act. But it is not just an intellectual history. It tells a fascinating story of a broader religious movement, and the people and beliefs that motivated them to create a new institution. The work is original because it relies so completely on original sources. It is mystical because it mingles heavenly with earthly justice. It is authoritative because of its explanatory power. Its anecdotes and insights, poetry and song, provide intriguing glimpses into another era strangely familiar to our own. Of special interest to social and legal historians, criminologists, and theologians, this work will also appeal to a wider audience of those who are interested in Christianity's impact on Western culture and institutions.
George Herbert
Author: Joseph SummersPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532654529
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
George Herbert has for centuries been admired by the religious for his piety and by lovers of poetry for his language and his wit. In the present volume, Professor Summers seeks to abolish this dualism of approach: he is concerned throughout to demonstrate Herbert’s religion as it is expressed in his poems, and to interpret the poems in the light of his religion, for they are a “picture” of meticulously observed spiritual experience. He gives us a scholarly, lucid, and integrated study of a much-loved poet, who was at once a good man, a profound Christian thinker, and a most daring experimentalist in the craft of verse. Professor Summers charts the many currents and cross-currents of early seventeenth century religious thought that affected Herbert, traces the stages of the poet’s life, and then proceeds to a thorough examination of the form and content of his work. There are interesting chapters on his metrical “counterpoint,” his dramatic-colloquial style, and the influence of music upon his poetry. This is not only an authoritative study of the poet himself but a notable contribution to the problem, so keenly discussed today, of religious belief in relation to poetry.
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: John WorthenPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118534034
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Drawing especially on the many scholarly discoveries of recent years, this biography examines the life – and death ‒ of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Based on sceptical historical investigation and featuring an in-depth look at Shelley’s personal, financial and familial situation, it builds a compelling narrative about a controversial writer and thinker whose personal and philosophical convictions caused much turmoil during his short yet extraordinarily influential life. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley reveals sides of the author not often studied. It looks at Shelley as an intensely loving, thoughtful and responsible man and father, who (except in one case) took exemplary care of the women he loved and who fell in love with him. It shows how significant his status as a gentleman was; it examines his poetry, letters, notebooks and discursive prose so that readers can comprehend the most important concerns of his life; it explores the financial and medical grounds for his years of exile; it is also the first biography to take account of his recently discovered early long poem the Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things. This biography offers readers a unique look at a famous poet, scholar, gentleman, democrat, atheist and tragic icon of English Romanticism.