Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne

by Frances Cruickshank (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $151.56

  A study that traces George Herbert's and John Donne's development of a distinct poetics through close readings of their poems, references to their letters, sermons, and prose treatises, and to other contemporary poets and theorists. It explores their attitudes to the cultural, theological, and aesthetic enterprise of writing and reading verse.