Henry Constable and the question of Catholic poetics: affective piety and erotic identification in the Spirituall Sonnettes.(Critical essay)

Philological Quarterly | January 1, 2006| | Copyright

In the preface to her 1960 edition of Henry Constable's poetry, Joan Grundy contextualizes Constable's Spirituall Sonnettes in relation to post-Tridentine aesthetics by observing that he uses "the sonnet form to express religious experience"; that he addresses "a series of sonnets to God and His saints"; that he gives "prominence to a saint dear devotionally and artistically to the Counter-Reformation, namely Mary Magdalen, and in doing so" emphasizes those aspects of her cult popular at the time; and that he uses the "language of earthly love to express the aspiration of the ...

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