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Book SynopsisBarbara Lewalski argues that the Protestant emphasis on the Bible as requiring philological and literary analysis fostered a fully developed theory of biblical aesthetics defining both poetic art and spiritual truth. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previ
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Table of Contents, pg. vii*Foreword, pg. ix*List of Abbreviations, pg. xiii*List of Emblems, pg. xiv*Chapter 1. "Is there in truth no beautie ?": Protestant Poetics and the Protestant Paradigm of Salvation, pg. 1*Part I. Biblical Poetics, pg. 29*Chapter 2. Biblical Genre Theory: Precepts and Models for the Religious Lyric, pg. 31*Chapter 3. The Poetic Texture of Scripture: Tropes and Figures for the Religious Lyric, pg. 72*Chapter 4. The Biblical Symbolic Mode: Typology and the Religious Lyric, pg. 111*Chapter 5. Protestant Meditation: Kinds, Structures, and Strategies of Development for the Meditative Lyric, pg. 147*Chapter 6. Protestant Emblematics: Sacred Emblems and Religious Lyrics, pg. 179*Chapter 7. Art and the Sacred Subject: Sermon Theory, Biblical Personae, and Protestant Poetics, pg. 213*Chapter 8. John Donne: Writing after the Copy of a Metaphorical God, pg. 253*Chapter 9. George Herbert: Artful Psalms from the Temple in the Heart, pg. 283*Chapter 10. Henry Vaughan: Pleading in Groans of My Lord's Penning, pg. 317*Chapter 11. Thomas Traherne: Naked Truth, Transparent Words, and the Renunciation of Metaphor, pg. 352*Chapter 12. Edward Taylor: Lisps of Praise and Strategies for Self-Dispraise, pg. 388*Afterword, pg. 427*Notes, pg. 429*Index, pg. 507
