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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.
Price: $40.00
Pages: 262
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Lettre
Publication Date:
24 July 2018
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837642544
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, RELIGION / History
Cyril L. Caspar, born in 1989, wrote his PhD thesis at the English Department of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His research interests include early modern English literature and the history of the reformation.
Frontmatter i
Contents v
Figures vii
Acknowledgments ix
CONVENTIONS xi
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: The Poetics of the Last Pilgrimage 21
Chapter 2: "streight way on that last long voiage" 73
Chapter 3: "a death like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal Life" 137
Conclusion: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress 195
Bibliography 221