All wonders in one sight : the Christ child among the Elizabethan and Stuart poets /
In the seventeenth century many leading poets wrote poems about Christ's infancy, though charm and sweetness were not the leading note. Because these poets were university-educated classicists--many of them also Catholic or Anglican priests--they wrote in an elevated style, with elevated langua...
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2021
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Table of Contents:
- Sacrament, Time, and Space in the Tudor and Stuart English Nativity Lyric
- The Christ Child on Fire: Southwell's Mighty Babe
- "Kisse Him, and with Him into Egypt Goe": John Donne and the Christ Child of "Nativitie"
- "My Saviour's Face": George Herbert's "Starre" and the Vanishing Christ Child
- "Wisest Fate Says No": Milton's Nativity Ode
- "We Kis't the Cradle of Our King": Affection, Awe, and Abridging the Laws of Time in Crashaw
- Conclusion: The Christ Child: Little Boy Lost.
