Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric

by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

Book Overview

Barbara Lewalski argues that the Protestant emphasis on the Bible as requiring philological and literary analysis fostered a fully developed theory of biblical aesthetics defining both poetic art and spiritual truth.

Originally published in 1979.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691611920
• ISBN13: 9780691611921
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"