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- The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Historical Developments
- Part II Literary Forms
- Chapter 9 Poetry
- Chapter 10 The Novel
- Chapter 11 Drama
- Chapter 12 Sermons and Lectures
- Chapter 13 Life Writing
- Part III Disciplinary Connections
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
- References
Chapter 9 - Poetry
from Part II - Literary Forms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2021
- The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Historical Developments
- Part II Literary Forms
- Chapter 9 Poetry
- Chapter 10 The Novel
- Chapter 11 Drama
- Chapter 12 Sermons and Lectures
- Chapter 13 Life Writing
- Part III Disciplinary Connections
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
- References
Summary
The link between religion and Romantic poetry has long and recurrently been recognized. The present chapter, however, argues that this link is philologically comprised, with Romantics poetically investing in global religious traditions via acts of linguistic recovery. Invoking Robert Lowth’s lectures on biblical poetry as its precedent, this chapter explores three representative case studies of Romantic poetic engagement with sacred literatures from the Middle East, as well as later Middle Eastern-language renditions of Romantic poets, surveying William Blake’s Hebrew prophecies, Thomas Moore’s Islamicate receptions, and Lord Byron’s Armenian pilgrimages.
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- The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion , pp. 141 - 160Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021