| Devotional Poetry in France C.1570-1613 Contributor(s): Cave (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521113458 ISBN-13: 9780521113458 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $37.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2009 Annotation: Dr Cave studies the relationship between the traditions of personal devotion in sixteenth-century France and the poetry which flourished at the end of the century. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Dewey: 841.3 |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.05 lbs) 376 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dr Cave studies the relationship between the traditions of personal devotion in sixteenth-century France and the poetry which flourished at the end of the century and the beginning of the seventeenth. It was a poetry of intense personal commitment, preoccupied with penitence and confession, the vanity of life, the imminence of death, the meaning of the Incarnation and the Passion; often verging on mysticism and mingling of the sensual, the intellectual and the spiritual in a manner often thought typical of the baroque. It was part of a European movement, and there is much here to interest the student of the early seventeenth-century sensibility. A comparable book on English literature is Louis Martz's The Poetry of Meditation, but the lines of Dr Cave's enquiry are new. The book has a fourfold interest: to readers concerned with French literature; to those with particular interest in the traditions of devotion; to those concerned with comparative studies in the baroque period, and to students of rhetorical analysis. |