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Poetry of contemplation : John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, and the modern period

This is the first systematic and thorough study of mysticism or contemplation in these three seventeenth-century poets. This commentary on poetry examines whether poetry has a redemptive quality or power to change perspectives
Print Book, English, ©1990
State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, ©1990
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvii, 306 pages ; 24 cm
9780791401262, 9780791401279, 079140126X, 0791401278
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