Friday, January 30, 2015

Marian Poetry in England in the Transition Period During and After the Reformation (Part 10) : Nahum Tate

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The eighteenth-century English poet, playwright and one-time poet laureate Nahum Tate ( 1652-1715 ) movingly describes the terrors endur...

Marian Poetry in England in the Transition Period During and After the Reformation ( Part Nine) : John Donne

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Like Crashaw , John Donne ( 1573-1631 ) , the giant among the metaphysical poets, experienced the religious controversy from both sides ...

Marian Poetry in England in the Transition Period During and After the Reformation (Part Eight) : Henry Fauna

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Henry Fauna ( 1621 - 1695 ) , who greatly admired George Herbert, believed tht the latter's religious writings inspired many to a d...

Marian Poetry in England in the Transition Period During and After the Reformation (Part Seven); Joseph Beaumont

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There is a profound simplicity in Joseph Beaumont's ( 1616-1699 ) description of Mary's purification:     THE PURIFICATION OF...

Marian Poetry in England in the Transition Period During and After the Reformation (Part Six); Richard Crashaw

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The powerful imagery in the poem An Hymne of the Nativity by Richard Crashaw ( 1613?-1649 ) is alive and evocative. A Puritan, Crashaw ...

Marian Poetry in England in the Transition Period During and After the Reformation (Part Five): John Milton

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The chaos in the politically and religiously unstable England of the seventeenth century was reflected in its lack of Marian poetry. Th...

Marian Poetry in England in the Transition Period During and After the Reformation [Part Four]

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One of the many sonneteers of the Elizabethan era, the Catholic poet Henry Constable (1562-1613), in an eloquent and sonorous sonnet pr...