TY - BOOK AU - Netzley,Ryan TI - Reading, desire, and the Eucharist in early modern religious poetry SN - 9781442694927 (electronic bk.) AV - PR545.R4 N47 2011eb U1 - 821/.409382 23 PY - 2011/// CY - Toronto [Ont.] PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Christian poetry, English KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - History and criticism KW - Christianity and literature KW - England KW - History KW - 17th century KW - Lord's Supper in literature KW - God in literature KW - POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Take and Taste, Take and Read: Desiring, Reading, and Taking Presence in George Herbert's The Temple -- Reading Indistinction: Desire, Indistinguishability, and Metonymic Reading in Richard Crashaw's Religious Lyrics -- Loving Fear: Affirmative Anxiety in John Donne's Divine Poems -- Desiring What Has Already Happened: Reading Prolepsis and Immanence in John Milton's Early Poems and Paradise Regained N2 - "The courtly love tradition had a great influence on the themes of religious poetry - just as an absent beloved could be longed for passionately, so too could a distant God be the subject of desire. But when authors began to perceive God as immanently available, did the nature and interpretation of devotional verse change? Ryan Netzley argues that early modern religious lyrics presented both desire and reading as free, loving activities, rather than as endless struggles or dramatic quests; 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. Netzley finds that by directing devotees to crave spiritual rather than worldly goods, these poets questioned ideas not only of what people should desire, but also how they should engage in the act of yearning. Challenging fundamental assumptions of literary criticism, Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist shows how poetry can encourage love for its own sake, rather than in the hopes of salvation."--Pub. desc UR - http://site.ebrary.com/id/10512744 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=468978 UR - http://celarc.ca/covers/438/438847.jpg ER -