Feminine Engendered Faith

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Unspeakable Domina

   • Maureen Sabine

   Pages 1-42

3. Crowned With Her Flesh

   • Maureen Sabine

   Pages 43-77

4. Refuse the Name of Mother

   • Maureen Sabine

   Pages 78-110

5. Faith of the Feminine Gender

   • Maureen Sabine

   Pages 111-145

6. Crown of Woemen and Mistresse of our Song

   • Maureen Sabine

   Pages 146-170

7. All Made Maries

   • Maureen Sabine

   Pages 171-197

8. No Assumption Shall Deny Us

   • Maureen Sabine

   Pages 198-235

9. Back Matter

   Pages 236-301

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This book proposes the poetic link between Donne and Crashaw during the English Reformation. In the first half of this work, Donne's Songs and Sonets, Verse Letters, religious works and Anniversaries are discussed as they reflect increasingly covert reverence for a holy mother figure. In the second half, Crashaw's juvenile poems and epigrams, verse in honour of the Virgin and Child, and mature contemplative verse are seen to express mystical homage to Mary and growing admiration for feminine powers of faith.

• Elegie
• poem
• reformation
• British and Irish Literature

• University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  Maureen Sabine

MAUREEN SABINE

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