Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric

Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer

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“…12 Wither has a secure place in the history of biblical scholarship and psalmody, namely for his contribution to the theory of biblical lyric poetry in A Preparation to the Psalter. 13 Yet, this is rarely assimilated into a wider picture of Wither that incorporates his more overtly political poetry. His efforts to translate the psalms have been viewed as part of a broader early seventeenth-century ambition to supplant the muchderided text of the Old Version -the semi-official Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter.…”

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Politics and the ‘Heauenly Sonnets’: George Wither's Religious Verse, 1619–1625

Hackett

2009

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In the last years of his reign, James I experienced an unprecedented level of opposition to his government of England. Whilst the king remained committed to negotiating a Spanish bride for his son and refused to intervene to assist Protestants internationally, his subjects protested, railed and implored against royal policy. The bold and controversial satires of the poet George Wither are often employed by historians as examples of this political opposition. However, assigning Wither to the role of outspoken satirist in the early 1620s relies on neglecting his religious verse as irrelevant and at times contradictory to the ideology perceived in his secular poetry. This article seeks to restore the political value in Wither's religious verse and to demonstrate the consistency of purpose that can be identified throughout his works. Wither's biblical translations and spiritual compositions continued to uphold the Protestant, humanist ideals of his satires and functioned specifically to promote interest in the Protestant cause on the continent. This development of a more complete picture of Wither contributes towards a more nuanced understanding of the diverse and intricate nature of early Stuart political thought.

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Politics and the ‘Heauenly Sonnets’: George Wither's Religious Verse, 1619–1625

Hackett

2009

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“…The faithful Christian was therefore seen as antitype and fulfilment of Jewish promises. 67 In his arguments against Catholic writers, Andrew Willet had therefore warned against any interpretation of Old Testa-ment prophecy that was not typological in nature: 'you would have the prophecie of Isay to be literally understood, you have made a good argument for the Jewes'. 68 A 'literal' reading of Jewish restoration was the very definition of the 'absurdities' that the analogy of faith aimed to guard against.…”

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‘The proper and naturall meaning of the Prophets’: the hermeneutic roots of Judeo-centric eschatology

Crome

2009

Renaissance Studies

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Recent scholarship on Puritan millennialism has identified an interest in Jewish conversion and restoration to Palestine, labelled as ‘Judeo‐centrism’. This essay examines the early development of this theme from 1600–21, focusing primarily on three writers within the mainstream of Puritan theology – Thomas Brightman, Thomas Draxe and Henry Finch. In Judeo‐centrism, Jewish conversion was not viewed as a union with Gentile believers. Instead, the Jews were seen to maintain their otherness and to assume a position of superiority over the Gentiles. This presumed that the Gentile Church and believing Israel were separate entities, meaning that prophecies previously applied to the Church must exclusively be applied to the Jews. This was the result of the adoption of a ‘consistently literal’ hermeneutic in reading Old Testament prophecy. This essay suggests that the development of this approach was a result of Brightman's response to Jesuit commentaries on Revelation produced in the late sixteenth century.

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“…My reading of Paradise Lost resists this assumption. Indeed, it shows that we err in reducing Milton's poetic (re)vision to either a theological exercise (Fish, 1998(Fish, , 2001), on the one hand, or a protestant work ethic (Lewalski, 1979), on the other. We err insofar as we miss seeing the queer potentiality, or the sheer erotic excess, of Milton's vision of the Garden, which is not merely about work, after all, but about unworking our assumptions about collectivity, agency, sexuality and the commons.…”

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Unworking Milton: Steps to a georgics of the mind

Swarbrick

2014

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Traditionally read as a poem about laboring subjects who gain power through abstract and abstracting forms of bodily discipline, John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) more compellingly foregrounds the erotics of the Garden as a space where humans and nonhumans intra-act materially and sexually. Following Christopher Hill, who long ago pointed to not one but two revolutions in the history of seventeenth-century English radicalismthe first, 'the one which succeeded[,]… the protestant ethic'; and the second, 'the revolution which never happened,' which sought 'communal property, a far wider democracy[,] and rejected the protestant ethic'-I show how Milton's Paradise Lost gives substance to 'the revolution which never happened' by imagining a commons, indeed a communism, in which human beings are not at the center of things, but rather constitute one part of the greater ecology of mind within Milton's poem. In the space created by this ecological reimagining, plants assume a new agency. I call this reimagining 'ecology to come.'

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Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric

Cited by 170 publications

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Politics and the ‘Heauenly Sonnets’: George Wither's Religious Verse, 1619–1625

Politics and the ‘Heauenly Sonnets’: George Wither's Religious Verse, 1619–1625

‘The proper and naturall meaning of the Prophets’: the hermeneutic roots of Judeo-centric eschatology

Unworking Milton: Steps to a georgics of the mind

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