Póros
Póros , anc. Greek Calauria, island (1991 pop. 3,570), c.8 sq mi (20 sq km), SE Greece, in the Aegean Sea near the Argolis peninsula of the Peloponnesus. It is famous for its fine marble. There are remains of a temple of Poseidon where Demosthenes took poison and died in 322 BC Representatives of Britain, France, and Russia met on Póros in 1828 to discuss the future of the new Greek state.
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The Crashavian mother.(Richard Crashaw)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Richard Crashaw's graphic depictions of the body seem...religious and intellectual movements of Crashaw's time. But historical and/or iconographic...women. This paper will argue that two of Crashaw's most familiar epigrams, "Luke 2...
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Oral devotion: eucharistic theology and Richard Crashaw's Religious Lyrics.
Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...respond remains constant: Crashaw's tasteless yoking of sensuous...Poetry," announces that "Crashaw also has a sometimes disturbing...different critical tradition, Richard Rambuss's Closet Devotions...tendency as well, claiming Crashaw's proliferation of orifices...
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Richard Crashaw's poem on Matthew 22 and the Ars Memorativa.(Essays)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...paragraph of The Preface to the Reader in Richard Crashaw's Steps to the Temple (1646), the anonymous writer, most likely Crashaw's friend Joseph Beaumont, (1) underscores Crashaw's knowledge and mnemonic abilities as...
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Using alchemical memory techniques for the interpretation of literature; John Donne, George Herbert and Richard Crashaw.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2008; 481 words
; ...9780773451988 Using alchemical memory techniques for the interpretation of literature; John Donne, George Herbert and Richard Crashaw. Albrecht, Roberta J. Edwin Mellen Pr. 2008 234 pages $109.95 Hardcover PR545 Continuing her exploration of...
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Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Poetry: Studies in Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Studies in Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan. By R. V. YOUNG...as diverse as Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan. Young finds it...To include the Catholic convert Richard Crashaw in a book of this kind is a calculated...
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The religious epigram in early Stuart England.
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...has attracted almost none. Only Richard Crashaw's attempts (in both Latin and...religious epigrams of the period. But Crashaw also laments at length that the...Christian poet. While the goal of Crashaw and others was to sanctify and...
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Intimacy and the Body in Seventeenth-Century Religious Devotion.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Early Modern Literary Studies; 5/1/2005; 700+ words
; ...contained. In contrast, the poet Richard Crashaw is untroubled by the absence of...doctrine of transubstantiation. Crashaw also finds examples of his model...figures from the Gospels. For Crashaw, both Christ's body and the...
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THE COMMUNICATING VESSELS: POETICS, SURREALISM AND THE BAROQUE.
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 5/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...poetic and visual composition. Richard Crashaw's "The Weeper", for example...describes in his 1926 Clark lecture on Crashaw as "often no more than a string...and effect of empathic devotion. Crashaw, and the poem, draw into themselves...
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God's backside.
Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language; 9/22/2002; ; 674 words
; ...Oral Devotion: Eucharistic Theology and Richard Crashaw's Religious Lyrics," Ryan Netzley's richly contextualized investigation of Crashaw's religious poetry. Various readers have found Crashaw's devotional application of corporeal...
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Gary Kuchar. Divine Subjection: The Rhetoric of Sacramental Devotion in Early Modern England.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Seventeenth-Century News; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Devoting chapters to Southwell, Crashaw, Donne, and Traherne, he attends...the Laudian turned Roman convert Richard Crashaw; the uncategorizable Protestant...rhetoric in works by Southwell and Crashaw, who both use rhetorical extremes...
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Richard Crashaw
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Richard Crashaw The English poet Richard Crashaw (C. 1612-1649) was Roman Catholic in sensibility and...major body of work in English that can be called baroque. Richard Crashaw was born in London. His father, a stern Puritan who hated...
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Crashaw, Richard
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Crashaw, Richard ( c. 1612–49). Poet...preacher father's puritan zealotry, Crashaw was drawn increasingly to high Anglicanism...verse ( Steps to the Temple , 1646), Crashaw was never more than a minor poet despite...
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Sidney, Philip (1554–1586)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...sonnet sequences and influenced John Donne (1573 – 1631) and his followers George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Traherne, Thomas Carew, and Andrew Marvell. The Arcadia, begun in 1580 and written initially for his...
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Abraham Cowley
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...a love cycle written in the manner of John Donne; Poems (1656), including the Pindaric odes and the elegies on Richard Crashaw and William Hervey; and Verses on Several Occasions (1663), including "To the Royal Society," an ode recalling...
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Lancelot Andrewes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Private Devotions, translated (1647) from his prayers in Greek and Latin, passed through a number of editions. Richard Crashaw, the poet, paid him a beautiful tribute in "Upon Bishop Andrewes' Picture before His Sermons," and Milton...
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