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Fairchild, Hoxie Neale

Religious Trends in English Poetry / Hoxie Neale Fairchild. - 1 online resource

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- Part I. 1700-1720 -- I. Indifference, Negation, Scepticism -- II. Poets of Controversy -- III. Divine Poets -- IV. Middle-Classicists -- V. The Beginnings of Sentimentalism -- Part II. 1720-1740 -- VI. Neither Christian Nor Very Sentimental -- VII. Divine Poets -- VIII. Non-Sentimental Christians -- IX. Sentimentalism-Mild Cases -- X. Sentimentalism-Severer Cases -- XI. Pope and Thomson -- XII. Protestantism and Sentimentalism -- Appendix I. Primary Sources -- Appendix II. Secondary Sources -- Index of Names -- Index of Topics

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Studies English poetry written between 1740-1780 for the religious thoughts and feelings while stressing the historical rather than the aesthetic or metaphysical uses of religion.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9780231926003 9780231889520

Standard No.: 10.7312/fair92600 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Religious poetry, English--History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.

LC Class. No.: PR508.R4 / F3

Dewey Class. No.: 821.09