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The Last Pilgrimage to Eternity : Protestant Paths to the Afterlife in Early Modern English Poetry / Cyril L. Caspar.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: LettrePublisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2018]Copyright date: 2018Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783839442548
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.308 23/eng/20230216
LOC classification:
  • PR508.R4 C37 2018
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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