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Religious rite & ceremony in Milton's poetry
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ISBN: 0813164451 9780813164458 0813154545 9780813154541 1322600694 0813188121 Year: 1968 Publisher: Lexington : University of Kentucky Press,

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Milton, the arch-Puritan and outspoken critic of the stereotyped rituals of the established churches, has been regarded by most scholars as a writer who is unlikely to have employed liturgical materials in his poetry. Thomas B. Stroup shows to the contrary that Milton made extensive use of Christian liturgy not only as material within the body of his poems but also as a force in shaping them.In a survey of both Milton's major works and his minor poems, prayers of thanksgiving, the General Confession, similarities to hymns, echoes from canticles, and many other rites and ceremonies of the churc

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