The Religious Sublime: Christian Poetry and Critical Tradition in 18th-Century England

This perceptive, carefully documented study challenges the traditional assumption that the supernatural virtually disappeared from eighteenth-century poetry as a result of the growing rationalistic temper of the late seventeenth century. Mr. Morris shows that the religious poetry of eighteenth-century England, while not equaling the brilliant work of seventeenth-century and Romantic writers, does reveal a vital and serious effort to create a new kind of sacred poetry which would rival the sublim

Author: David B. Morris
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 274
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780813153612

About the Author

David B. Morris is an associate professor in the Department of Literature at American University.

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