Title Poetic relations : intimacy and faith in the English Reformation / Constance M. Furey

Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction -- Authorship -- Friendship -- Love -- Marriage -- Coda Summary What is the relationship between our isolated and our social selves, between aloneness and interconnection? Constance M. Furey probes this question through a suggestive literary tradition: early Protestant poems in which a single speaker describes a solitary search for God. As Furey demonstrates, John Donne, George Herbert, Anne Bradstreet, and others describe inner lives that are surprisingly crowded, teeming with human as well as divine companions. The same early modern writers who bequeathed to us the modern distinction between self and society reveal here a different way of thinking about selfhood altogether. For them, she argues, the self is neither alone nor universally connected, but is forever interactive and dynamically constituted by specific relationships. By means of an analysis equally attentive to theological ideas, social conventions, and poetic form, Furey reveals how poets who understand introspection as a relational act, and poetry itself as a form ideally suited to crafting a relational self, offer us new ways of thinking about selfhood today - and a resource for reimagining both secular and religious ways of being in the world Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Bradstreet, Anne 1612-1672 gnd Donne, John 1572-1631 gnd Herbert, George 1593-1633 gnd Subject Protestant poetry, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Christian poetry, English -- History and criticism Devotional poetry -- History and criticism Interpersonal relations in literature. Authorship in literature. Marriage in literature. Love in literature. Self in literature. Reformation -- England. POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Authorship in literature Christian poetry, English Devotional poetry Interpersonal relations in literature Love in literature Marriage in literature Protestant poetry, English -- Early modern Reformation Self in literature Christliche Lyrik Englisch Protestantismus Selbst Motiv Interaktion England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780226434292 022643429X

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