Romantic prayer : reinventing the poetics of devotion, 1773-1832 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stokes, Christopher, 1981- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	English poetry > 18th century > History and criticism. English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism. Prayer > Christianity. Hymns > History and criticism. Romanticism > Religious aspects > Christianity. Religion in literature. English poetry. Hymns. 1700-1899 Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

The theology of prayer: reasonable devotion, rational dissent, and the evangelical revival
'The solitary saint walks forth to meditate at even-tide': evangelical prayer and interiority in William Cowper
'Till all my sense is lost in infinite': contemplation, affect, and rational dissenting prayer in Barbauld
'Hence the necessity of prayer': Coleridge and the reasoning of devotion, 1874-1832
'This prayer I make': hesitant devotions in Wordsworth's poetry
'Unlike the God of human error': the end of prayer in Shelley and Byron.