Devotional Poetry in France, c. 1570-1613

Cave, Terence C.

ISBN 10: 0521071453 / ISBN 13: 9780521071451

Published by Cambridge at the University Press, Cambridge, 1969

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Good, ex-library book with associated ex-library flaws, pencil and ink underlining and marginalia on about one-third of pages, overall wear to blue cloth, and heavier wear to cloth at corners.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Devotional Poetry in France, c. 1570-1613
• Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521071453
• ISBN 13: 9780521071451
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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Synopsis

Dr Cave studies the relationship between the traditions of personal devotion in sixteenth-century France and the poetry which flourished at the end of the century and the beginning of the seventeenth. It was a poetry of intense personal commitment, preoccupied with penitence and confession, the vanity of life, the imminence of death, the meaning of the Incarnation and the Passion; often verging on mysticism and mingling of the sensual, the intellectual and the spiritual in a manner often thought typical of the baroque. It was part of a European movement, and there is much here to interest the student of the early seventeenth-century sensibility. A comparable book on English literature is Louis Martz's The Poetry of Meditation, but the lines of Dr Cave's enquiry are new. The book has a fourfold interest: to readers concerned with French literature; to those with particular interest in the traditions of devotion; to those concerned with comparative studies in the baroque period, and to students of rhetorical analysis.

Book Description

Dr Cave studies the relationship between the traditions of personal devotion in sixteenth-century France and the poetry which flourished. It was a poetry of intense personal commitment, often verging on mysticism and mingling of the sensual, the intellectual and the spiritual in a manner often thought typical of the baroque.