The Delights of the Muses Secular Poems - Couverture souple

Crashaw, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1110838883 ISBN 13 : 9781110838882

Editeur : BiblioLife, 2009

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Rotc. A desire having been expressed for a collection of Crashaw snon-sacred pieces, the present volume is offered as supplying the unquestionable desideratum. For information about the Poet and his works we would refer the reader to our fuller edition recently issued, and for the present occasion confine ourselves to the productions contained herein, and to what follows as appendix to this edition of the secular poems. We can readily understand and appreciate the wish for the pieces herein contained: productions free from questionable theology and even questionable taste. Without breaking from our previously expressed opinion that Crashaw is at his highest in his sacred verse as indeed we believe is the opinion of the best critics we can yet on several worthy grounds place these Delights of the Muses, for fancy, delicacy, true poetry, and exquisiteness, in a perfect niche of their own ;and while the non-P rotestant will prize most those matchless sacred verses contained in Carmen Deo Nostro and in Steps to the Temple, the more general lover of verse will revel in the ardours and sweetnesses of The Delights of theM
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: BiblioLife
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1110838883
• ISBN 13: 9781110838882
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 78