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SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE AND THE BIBLE IBD

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF AMERICA
12 / 2006
9780761835608
Inglês

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Sir Richard Blackmore (1650_1729) was deeply affected by the Protestant poetic trends in England, which favored the Sacred Scriptures as a source for what was termed ?divine poetry.? His preference also prized the religious poetic trends as a spiritual weapon against vice and atheism. His advocacy of ideas upholding virtue, morality, and Christianity in a world that was undergoing phenomenal changes in its mores served as a backbone for the renewal and strengthening of the increasing popularity of divine poetry. This work further explores the Bible?s influence on Blackmore?s physico-theological poems, his personal notions of a Creator, and his scientific ideas.