The English Poems of Richard Crashaw
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The English Poems of Richard Crashaw
By (Author) Richard Crashaw
Edited by Richard Rambuss
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
22nd October 2013
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Christianity
821.408
Physical Properties
Hardback
568
Width 156mm, Height 235mm, Spine 51mm
Description
This is the first new critical edition in more than forty years of an astounding and unjustly neglected poet of sacred eroticism and homoeroticismthe traditional yet nevertheless startling expression of ecstatic religious feeling in sexual terms. Flamboyant, experimental, and cosmopolitan in his literary and religious preferences, Richard Crashaw (ca. 16131649) wrote exultant, high-flying verse that remains the most sustained effort in English to render ecstasy poetically.
Author Bio
Richard Rambuss is professor of English at Brown University. He is the author of Closet Devotions and Spensers Secret Career.
