The Poetry of Immanence: Sacrament in Donne and Herbert.(Book Review)

From: Christianity and Literature | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The Poetry of Immanence: Sacrament in Donne and Herbert. By Robert Whalen. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8020-3659-7. Pp. xxi + 216. $45.00.

The devotional poets of the seventeenth century continue to fascinate academic literary scholars and provide fertile ground for their labors, because, like all great writers, they provide the challenge of unfamiliarity while raising perennially important questions. In The Poetry of Immanence: Sacrament in Donne and Herbert, Robert Whalen undertakes the difficult task of defining the precise religious orientation of ...

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