Turning the Tables: Richard Crashaw Reads the Protestant Altar.
This article contextualizes Richard Crashaw's epigram "Blessed be the paps which thou hast sucked" within a contemporary debate about the proper role of ceremony in Protestant worship. More specifically, it identifies the scandalous feeding celebrated in the epigram with a pamphlet war raging in the...
| Publicado en: | Studies in Philology Vol. 112; no. 2; pp. 303 - 327 |
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University of North Carolina Press
Spring2015
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| Sumario: | This article contextualizes Richard Crashaw's epigram "Blessed be the paps which thou hast sucked" within a contemporary debate about the proper role of ceremony in Protestant worship. More specifically, it identifies the scandalous feeding celebrated in the epigram with a pamphlet war raging in the mid- to late 1630s over the naming and placement of the altar. Far from articulating a clear "Laudian" position, Crashaw's imaginative invocation of Luke 11:27-28 exposes and explodes the shared hermeneutic underlying both pro-altar and pro-table arguments. Crashaw's poetic interrogation of the depth/surface hermeneutic informing the altar debate historicizes the affiliation between "literary" and "sacramental" habits of reading. |
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