Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist in Early Modern Religious Poetry.
Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist analyzes the work of prominent early modern writers-including John Milton, Richard Crashaw, John Donne, and George Herbert-whose religious poetry presented parallels between sacramental desire and the act of understanding written texts.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Desiring Sacraments and Reading Real Presence in Seventeenth-Century Religious Poetry
- 1 Take and Taste, Take and Read: Desiring, Reading, and Taking Presence in George Herbert's The Temple
- 2 Reading Indistinction: Desire, Indistinguishability, and Metonymic Reading in Richard Crashaw's Religious Lyrics
- 3 Loving Fear: Affirmative Anxiety in John Donne's Divine Poems
- 4 Desiring What Has Already Happened: Reading Prolepsis and Immanence in John Milton's Early Poems and Paradise Regained
- Conclusion: Reading Is Love
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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