{"product_id":"the-english-poems-of-richard-richard-crashaw-9780816680689","title":"The English Poems of Richard Crashaw","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Crashaw is quite alone in his peculiar kind of greatness.\" --T. S. Eliot\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first new critical edition in more than forty years of an astounding and unjustly neglected poet of sacred eroticism and homoeroticism--the traditional yet nevertheless startling expression of ecstatic religious feeling in sexual terms. Flamboyant, experimental, and cosmopolitan in his literary and religious preferences, Richard Crashaw (ca. 1613-1649) wrote exultant, high-flying verse that remains the most sustained effort in English to render ecstasy poetically. Routinely misunderstood and at times even maligned for his supposed bad taste, Crashaw mixes the languages of erotic and religious rapture in powerful poems about holy women such as Mary Magdalene, Teresa of Ávila, and the Virgin Mary, but also in lyrics about Christ's naked, crucified body, making Crashaw one of the queerest of religious poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresenting Crashaw to a new generation of readers, Richard Rambuss has newly edited all of his English poems, with modern spelling and full annotations. This volume replicates Crashaw's books, the 1646 version of \u003ci\u003eSteps to the Temple \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Carmen Deo Nostro\u003c\/i\u003e (1652), and includes his important verse letter to the Countess of Denbigh, as well as manuscript poems. Rambuss offers an extensive critical, biographical, and historical introduction that reassesses Crashaw and his significance and gives a chronology of the poet's life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Crashaw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081668068X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816680689\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 568\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/23\/2014 pg. 54","brand":"Richard Crashaw","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48748344312063,"sku":"9780816680689","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-english-poems-of-richard-richard-crashaw-9780816680689","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}