 | Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England Subjects: Christian poetry English -- Early modern 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century; Lord’s Supper in literature; Theology in literature; Symbolism in literature; Transubstantiation in literatur; Made Flesh explores the ways in which the works of John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Edward Taylor, and other devotional poets negotiated the strange triangulation of body, word, and meaning in the Eucharist, effectively reproducing the interpretative challenges of sacramental worship. Kimberly Johnson is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University. She is editor (with Jay Hopler) of Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry and author of several volumes of poetry, including Leviathan with a Hook and A Metaphorical God. |
