... verisimilitude Johnson Samuel Rorty Richard Passion of Christ literariness Belief Reformation Paradise Regain’d Samson Agonistes Paradise Lost rhetoric equity Protestant poetics In the last lecture, we saw Thomas Hobbes stake a claim for a new mode of writing in the midst of the English civil war...

... and Arminianism Calvinists and Calvinism predestination Trinitarians Copernicus Galileo Galilei Joshua biblical figure Luther Martin Ptolemy Ross Alexander The New Planet No Planet John Milton biblical epic Paradise Lost Protestant poetics indwelling spirit In the opening lines...

... from very different devotional and doctrinal backgrounds use the same tropes when dealing with a similar problem with the conscience. Perkins William selfhood tropes Alabaster William Catholic poetics Herbert George Lewalski Barbara Protestant poetics Martz Louis Derrida Jacques syllogism...

...This chapter shows that maintaining the link between poetry and the motions of the heart is crucial to a Protestant poetics, which regarded this link as having been sacralized by the Psalmist David. One text in the tradition of Christian poetics which has been established as important...

... advocate a Protestant poetics that denigrates human creativity and urges poets to replicate the established truths found in Scripture and nature. Despite contemporary and later comparisons between Du Bartas’ poems and the Book of Nature, his poems were self-consciously imperfect and are better understood...