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Henry Vaughan's Silex Scintillans Scripture Uses

West Philip
Innbundet / 2001 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780198187561
Publisert
2001
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
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481 gr
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225 mm
Bredde
145 mm
Dybde
21 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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284

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West Philip

Henry Vaughan's Silex Scintillans Scripture Uses

West Philip
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For those readers who have always wanted to see him as the author of quiet, meditative verse, it will come as a revelation - even, perhaps as a shock - to find him being cast as one who was consciously constructing his verse, with its profoundly biblical sensibility, as a bulwark against puritan attack. The erudition and sensitivity with which West has set about his task makes his case incontrovertible; he is in complete control of his material and his reading of the poetry in its biblical framework will enable readers to enter more sympathetically into the poet's world and more deeply into his imagination.

Journal of Theological Studies

West's detailed exposition of the poetry convincingly demonstrates not only the poet's profound knowledge of Scripture, but the extent to which he used it to shape his imagination and inform his verse ... This study will be of interest not only to lovers of English poetry but also to anyone wanting to know more about the history of England at a particularly violent and critical period.

Journal of Theological Studies

It has been said that the poems of Vaughan's Silex Scintillans (1650; 1655) are the most biblical in English: this book revises our understanding of that claim, not by rejecting it, but by asking what it might have meant in the 1650s. Recovering the historical, literary, and scriptural context of Vaughan's poetry and his neglected prose works, particularly The Mount of Olives (1652), this study reveals the different ways in which Vaughan's work is shot through and fired by the Bible as it was read in the 'Godly nation' of the mid-seventeenth century. The uses, or scripture practices, singled out, relate both to his position as an 'Anglican survivalist' during the Commonwealth and to his acceptance of George Herbert's task of writing 'true hymns': his reading of the Genesis story of Jacob as an analogue for his own experiences as a Christian and as an image of the true Church in the 1650s; his framing of Silex Scintillans as an act of thanksgiving modelled on Hezekiah's song in Isaiah; his construction of a paraliturgical 'rule' of holy living; his exposure of the 'false prophets' of the Last Days prophesied by Christ; and his profoundly scriptural rejection of the fraud (as he saw it) of millenarian religion.
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The poems of Henry Vaughan (1622-95), particularly Silex Scintillans, published during the Commonwealth period, are probably the most biblical in English. Philip West's study relates these great works to the wider biblical culture of the 'Godly nation' of the mid-seventeenth century, and reveals the political and devotional styles which underpinned Vaughan's literary achievements.
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Abbreviations and References ; 1. Introduction: Scripture Uses ; 2. Patriarchs and Pilgrims ; 3. Hezekiah and the Hand of Heaven ; 4. Holy Living, Hourly Living ; 5. True Lights and New Lights: Vaughan's 'White Sunday' and the False Prophets of the 1650s ; 6. Perfection Postponed ; Bibliography ; Index of Vaughan's Works ; Scripture Index ; General Index
Les mer
An illuminating study of Vaughan's use of biblical sources and of the wider context of how the Bible was interpreted in the mid-seventeenth century. A significant contribution to our historical understanding of the Commonwealth period, especially from the less well known Royalist viewpoint. Adds to our knowledge of how the Bible was percieved and used, in literature, politics, and culture.
Les mer
An illuminating study of Vaughan's use of biblical sources and of the wider context of how the Bible was interpreted in the mid-seventeenth century. A significant contribution to our historical understanding of the Commonwealth period, especially from the less well known Royalist viewpoint. Adds to our knowledge of how the Bible was percieved and used, in literature, politics, and culture.
Les mer

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For those readers who have always wanted to see him as the author of quiet, meditative verse, it will come as a revelation - even, perhaps as a shock - to find him being cast as one who was consciously constructing his verse, with its profoundly biblical sensibility, as a bulwark against puritan attack. The erudition and sensitivity with which West has set about his task makes his case incontrovertible; he is in complete control of his material and his reading of the poetry in its biblical framework will enable readers to enter more sympathetically into the poet's world and more deeply into his imagination.

Journal of Theological Studies

West's detailed exposition of the poetry convincingly demonstrates not only the poet's profound knowledge of Scripture, but the extent to which he used it to shape his imagination and inform his verse ... This study will be of interest not only to lovers of English poetry but also to anyone wanting to know more about the history of England at a particularly violent and critical period.

Journal of Theological Studies

It has been said that the poems of Vaughan's Silex Scintillans (1650; 1655) are the most biblical in English: this book revises our understanding of that claim, not by rejecting it, but by asking what it might have meant in the 1650s. Recovering the historical, literary, and scriptural context of Vaughan's poetry and his neglected prose works, particularly The Mount of Olives (1652), this study reveals the different ways in which Vaughan's work is shot through and fired by the Bible as it was read in the 'Godly nation' of the mid-seventeenth century. The uses, or scripture practices, singled out, relate both to his position as an 'Anglican survivalist' during the Commonwealth and to his acceptance of George Herbert's task of writing 'true hymns': his reading of the Genesis story of Jacob as an analogue for his own experiences as a Christian and as an image of the true Church in the 1650s; his framing of Silex Scintillans as an act of thanksgiving modelled on Hezekiah's song in Isaiah; his construction of a paraliturgical 'rule' of holy living; his exposure of the 'false prophets' of the Last Days prophesied by Christ; and his profoundly scriptural rejection of the fraud (as he saw it) of millenarian religion.
Les mer
The poems of Henry Vaughan (1622-95), particularly Silex Scintillans, published during the Commonwealth period, are probably the most biblical in English. Philip West's study relates these great works to the wider biblical culture of the 'Godly nation' of the mid-seventeenth century, and reveals the political and devotional styles which underpinned Vaughan's literary achievements.
Les mer
Abbreviations and References ; 1. Introduction: Scripture Uses ; 2. Patriarchs and Pilgrims ; 3. Hezekiah and the Hand of Heaven ; 4. Holy Living, Hourly Living ; 5. True Lights and New Lights: Vaughan's 'White Sunday' and the False Prophets of the 1650s ; 6. Perfection Postponed ; Bibliography ; Index of Vaughan's Works ; Scripture Index ; General Index
Les mer
An illuminating study of Vaughan's use of biblical sources and of the wider context of how the Bible was interpreted in the mid-seventeenth century. A significant contribution to our historical understanding of the Commonwealth period, especially from the less well known Royalist viewpoint. Adds to our knowledge of how the Bible was percieved and used, in literature, politics, and culture.
Les mer
An illuminating study of Vaughan's use of biblical sources and of the wider context of how the Bible was interpreted in the mid-seventeenth century. A significant contribution to our historical understanding of the Commonwealth period, especially from the less well known Royalist viewpoint. Adds to our knowledge of how the Bible was percieved and used, in literature, politics, and culture.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198187561
Publisert
2001
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
481 gr
Høyde
225 mm
Bredde
145 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
284

Forfatter
West Philip

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