| Description |
1 online resource (263 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Lettre
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Lettre.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; CONVENTIONS; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Poetics of the Last Pilgrimage; Chapter 2: "streight way on that last long voiage"; Chapter 3: "a death like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal Life"; Conclusion: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress; Bibliography. |
| Summary |
With the advent of the reformation, concepts of living and dying were profoundly reconfigured. As purgatory disappeared from the spiritual landscape, other paths to the afterlife were rediscovered. Thus, when life draws to a close, the passage to the afterlife becomes a last pilgrimage, a popular early modern metaphor that has received little critical commentary. In a rigorous historical and theological reading, Cyril L. Caspar explores five major English poets - John Donne, Sir Walter Raleigh, George Herbert, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton - to unveil the poetical potential of the last pilgrimage as a life-transcending metaphor. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
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| Chronological Term |
1500-1700 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Caspar, Cyril L. Last Pilgrimage to Eternity : Protestant Paths to the Afterlife in Early Modern English Poetry. Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, ©2018 9783837642544 |
| ISBN |
3839442540 |
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9783839442548 (electronic book) |
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