Biblical Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric
FAIN: FA-10986-74
Barbara K. Lewalski
Brown University (Providence, RI 02912-9100)
To examine the basic literary elements which were taken to characterize the scriptures as poetry and as model for Christian lyric poetry--to indicate their specific use and application of these theorectical concepts in the work of the Great Protestant religious lyrists of that period--Milton, Thomas, Traherne, George Herbert, etc.