Secular Chains
Subtitle: Poetry and the Politics of Religion from Milton to Pope
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780199269587
Subjects: Politics and literature; Religion and literature; English poetry, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700; English poetry, history and criticism, 18th century
Description: 'Secular Chains' uses close readings of the work of a range of canonical poets to re-evaluate the relationship between English literary culture and the political challenges to religious authority that emerged in the wake of the civil wars, and which culminated in the intellectual ferment of the early Enlightenment.