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Alabaster, William
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Alabaster, William (1568–1640), an Elizabethan divine and Latin poet. Between 1588 and 1592 he produced two notable works in Latin; an unfinished epic on Queen Elizabeth, praised by
Spenser; and the tragedy
Roxana which Dr
Johnson thought contained the best Latin verse written in England before
Milton. In 1597 he became a Roman Catholic and was arrested and deprived of Anglican orders. His sonnets (first pub. in 1959) are among the earliest
metaphysical poems of devotion. It was as a theologian that Alabaster was chiefly known in his own day. His first major essay in mystical theology,
Apparatus in Revelationem Iesu Christi was declared heretical by the Holy Office. By 1613–14 he was again a Protestant, later becoming a doctor of divinity at Cambridge and chaplain to the king. He devoted his later years to theological studies:
De Bestia Apocalyptica (Delft, 1621),
Ecce Sponsus Venit (1633),
Spiraculum Tubarum (1633). In 1635 he published a scholarly abridgement of Schindler's Hebrew lexicon.
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Magazine article from: Fairfield County Business Journal; 2/4/1991; 700+ words
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alabaster
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Alabaster, William
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Alabaster, William (1568–1640), an Elizabethan divine and Latin...earliest metaphysical poems of devotion. It was as a theologian that Alabaster was chiefly known in his own day. His first major essay in mystical theology...
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William Alabaster
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
William Alabaster , 1567-1640, English theologian and poet. Although he wrote two...for his theological studies, including Spiraculum Tubarum (1633). Alabaster converted to Roman Catholicism in Spain in 1597 and was imprisoned on...
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Alonso Berruguete
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...return to Spain, Berruguete executed an alabaster relief, the Resurrection, for Valencia...polychromed wood but also in marble, alabaster, stone, and unpainted wood (for choir...assistants to execute such works as the alabaster Transfiguration in Toledo Cathedral...
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USG Corporation
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...form, a white mineral commonly called alabaster. Large quantities of gypsum exist throughout...had managed his father's firm, the Alabaster Company, since 1894. When U.S.G. absorbed Alabaster, he became a U.S.G. director and...
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