The Eucharist, Poetics, and Secularization from the Middle Ages to Milton

by Shaun Ross

The Eucharist, Poetics, and Secularization from the Middle Ages to Milton explains the astonishing centrality of the eucharist to poets with a variety of denominational affiliations, writing on a range of subjects, across an extended period in literary history. Whether they are praying, thinking about politics, lamenting unrequited love, or telling fart jokes, late medieval and early modern English poets return again and again to the eucharist as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192872877
• ISBN13: 9780192872876
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"