TY  - BOOK
AU  - Caspar,Cyril L.
TI  - The Last Pilgrimage to Eternity: Protestant Paths to the Afterlife in Early Modern English Poetry 
T2  - Lettre
SN  - 9783839442548
AV  - PR508.R4 C37 2018
U1  - 821.308 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Bielefeld
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - Death in literature
KW  - English poetry
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Future life in literature
KW  - Protestantism in literature
KW  - British Studies
KW  - Cultural History
KW  - Early Modern History
KW  - England
KW  - General Literature Studies
KW  - History of Religion
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Literature
KW  - Pilgrimage
KW  - Religion
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
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