Beschreibung:
Original readings of Herbert, Herrick, Browne and Milton in the context of seventeenth-century religious conflict.
Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Reading the conflicts: ceremony, ideology and the meaning of religion; 3. George Herbert: devotion in The Temple and the art of contradiction; 4. Robert Herrick: religious experience in the 'Temple' of Hesperides; 5. Sir Thomas Browne: the promiscuous embrace of ritual order; 6. John Milton: carnal idolatry and the reconfiguration of worship, part I, 1634¿1660; 7. John Milton: carnal idolatry and the reconfiguration of worship, part II, after the Restoration: the major poems; Notes; Index.