The Poetics of Conversion in Early Modern English Literature: Verse and Change from Donne to Dryden

摘要: Christians in post-Reformation England inhabited a culture of conversion. Required to choose among rival forms worship, many would cross - and often recross the boundary between Protestantism Catholicism. This study considers poetry written by such converts, from reign Elizabeth I that James II, concentrating on four figures: John Donne, William Alabaster, Richard Crashaw, Dryden. Murray offers context for each poet's conversion within era's polemical controversial literature. She also elaborates formal features poems themselves, demonstrating how language could express both spiritual ecclesiastical change with particular vividness power. Proposing as catalyst some most innovative devotional period, canonical uncanonical, this will be interest all specialists early modern English