The English poems of Richard Crashaw /
Crashaw, Richard,1613?-1649.
Rambuss, Richard.
"This is the first new critical edition in more than forty years of an astounding and unjustly neglected poet of sacred eroticism and homoeroticism--the traditional yet nevertheless startling expression of ecstatic religious feeling in sexual terms. Flamboyant, experimental, and cosmopolitan in his literary and religious preferences, Richard Crashaw (ca. 1613-1649) wrote exultant, high-flying verse that remains the most sustained effort in English to render ecstasy poetically. Routinely misunderstood and at times even maligned for his supposed bad taste, Crashaw mixes the languages of erotic and religious rapture in powerful poems about holy women such as Mary Magdalene, Teresa of Ávila, and the Virgin Mary, but also in lyrics about Christ's naked, crucified body, making Crashaw one of the queerest of religious poets.Presenting Crashaw to a new generation of readers, Richard Rambuss has newly edited all of his English poems, with modern spelling and full annotations. This volume replicates Crashaw's books, the 1646 version of Steps to the Temple and Carmen Deo Nostro (1652), and includes his important verse letter to the Countess of Denbigh, as well as manuscript poems. Rambuss offers an extensive critical, biographical, and historical introduction that reassesses Crashaw and his significance and gives a chronology of the poet's life."--
"This is the first new critical edition in more than forty years of an astounding and unjustly neglected poet of sacred eroticism and homoeroticism--the traditional yet nevertheless startling expression of ecstatic religious feeling in sexual terms. Flamboyant, experimental, and cosmopolitan in his literary and religious preferences, Richard Crashaw (ca. 1613-1649) wrote exultant, high-flying verse that remains the most sustained effort in English to render ecstasy poetically. Routinely misunderstood and at times even maligned for his supposed bad taste, Crashaw mixes the languages of erotic and religious rapture in powerful poems about holy women such as Mary Magdalene, Teresa of Ávila, and the Virgin Mary, but also in lyrics about Christ's naked, crucified body, making Crashaw one of the queerest of religious poets.Presenting Crashaw to a new generation of readers, Richard Rambuss has newly edited all of his English poems, with modern spelling and full annotations. This volume replicates Crashaw's books, the 1646 version of Steps to the Temple and Carmen Deo Nostro (1652), and includes his important verse letter to the Countess of Denbigh, as well as manuscript poems. Rambuss offers an extensive critical, biographical, and historical introduction that reassesses Crashaw and his significance and gives a chronology of the poet's life."--
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-444) and index.
Machine generated contents note: THE ENGLISH POEMS OF RICHARD CRASHAW -- I.Steps to the Temple (1646) -- The Preface to the Reader -- The Author's Motto -- The Weeper -- The Tear -- Divine Epigrams -- Psalm 23 -- Psalm 137 -- A Hymn of the Nativity, Sung by the Shepherds -- Sospetto d'Herode -- On a Prayer Book Sent to Mrs. M. R. -- On Mr. G. Herbert's Book Entitled The Temple of Sacred Poems, Sent to a Gentlewoman -- In Memory of the Virtuous and Learned Lady Madre de Teresa That Sought an Early Martyrdom -- An Apology for the Precedent Hymn -- On a Treatise of Charity -- On the Assumption -- A Hymn for the Circumcision Day of Our Lord -- On Hope, by Way of Question and Answer, between A. Cowley, and R. Crashaw -- II.The Delights of the Muses (1646) -- Music's Duel -- Out of Virgil, in the Praise of the Spring -- With a Picture Sent to a Friend -- In Praise of Lessius, His Rule of Health -- The Beginning of Heliodorus -- Out of the Greek, Cupid's Crier --
Contents note continued: Untitled ("High mounted") -- Upon Venus Putting on Mars His Arms -- Upon the Same -- Upon Bishop Andrewes, His Picture before His Sermons -- Upon the Death of a Gentleman -- Upon the Death of Mr. Herris -- Upon the Death of the Most Desired Mr. Herris -- Another -- His Epitaph -- An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife, Which Died, and Were Buried Together -- An Epitaph. Upon Doctor Brooke -- Upon Mr. Stanninow's Death -- Upon the Duke of York His Birth, a Panegyric -- Upon Ford's Two Tragedies, Love's Sacrifice and The Broken Heart -- On a Foul Morning, Being Then to Take a Journey -- Upon The Fair Ethiopian Sent to a Gentlewoman -- On Marriage -- To the Morning. Satisfaction for Sleep -- Love's Horoscope -- Out of Martial -- Out of the Italian. A Song -- Out of the Italian -- Out of the Italian -- On the Frontispiece of Isaacson's Chronology Explained -- An Epitaph upon Mr. Ashton a Conformable Citizen -- Out of Catullus --
Contents note continued: Wishes. To His (Supposed) Mistress -- III.Poems in English Added to The Delights of the Muses (1648) -- To the Queen, an Apology for the Length of the Following Panegyric -- Upon Two Green Apricocks Sent to Cowley by Sir Crashaw -- IV.Carmen Deo Nostro (1652) -- Crashawe, the Anagram. He Was Car -- An Epigram -- To the Noblest and Best of Ladies, the Countess of Denbigh -- To the Name above Every Name, the Name of Jesus -- In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God -- New Year's Day -- In the Glorious Epiphany of Our Lord God -- To the Queen's Majesty -- The Office of the Holy Cross -- The Recommendation -- Upon the H[oly] Sepulcher -- Vexilla Regis, the Hymn of the Holy Cross -- To Our B[lessed] Lord upon the Choice of His Sepulcher -- Charitas Nimia; or The Dear Bargain -- Sancta Maria Dolorum; or The Mother of Sorrows -- Upon the Bleeding Crucifix, a Song -- Upon the Crown of Thorns -- Upon the Body of Our Bl[essed] Lord, Naked and Bloody --
Contents note continued: The Hymn of Saint Thomas in Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament -- Lauda Sion Salvatorem, the Hymn for the Bl[essed] Sacrament -- Dies Irae Dies Ilia -- The Hymn O Gloriosa Domina -- In the Glorious Assumption of Our Blessed Lady -- Saint Mary Magdalene; or The Weeper -- A Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Saint Teresa -- An Apology for the Foregoing Hymn -- The Flaming Heart -- A Song -- Prayer, an Ode -- To the Same Party Counsel Concerning Her Choice -- Alexias -- Description of a Religious House and Condition of Life (Out of Barclay) -- An Epitaph upon a Young Married Couple Dead and Buried Together -- Death's Lecture at the Funeral of a Young Gentleman -- Temperance; or The Cheap Physician -- Hope -- M[r]. Crashaw's Answer for Hope -- V.A Letter from Mr. Crashaw to the Countess of Denbigh (1653) -- Against Irresolution and Delay in Matters of Religion -- VI.Selected Poems from Manuscripts Luke 2: Quaerit Jesum suum Maria -- Matthew 16:25 --
Contents note continued: In cicatrices Domini Jesu -- In amorem divinum (Hermannus Hugo) -- Petronii -- Horatii -- On the Gunpowder Treason -- Upon the Gunpowder Treason -- Upon the Gunpowder Treason -- Upon the King's Coronation -- Upon the King's Coronation -- Upon the Birth of the Princess Elizabeth -- Ex Euphormione -- Upon the Death of a Friend -- An Elegy upon the Death of Mr. Stanninow -- An Elegy on the Death of Dr Porter -- Untitled ("At th' ivory tribunal") -- Untitled ("Though now 'tis") -- Out of Grotius His Tragedy of Christ's Sufferings -- Epithalamium.
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