caa a22 4500 386318964 CHVBK 20180307111618.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198805 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0034193200020148 doi S0034193200020148 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0034193200020148 Caro Robert V. William Alabaster:Rhetor, Meditator, Devotional Poet—I [Elektronische Daten] [Robert V. Caro] IT has been commonplace in the literary criticism of the past thirty years to acknowledge the influence of the Counter-Reformation devotional tradition on English metaphysical poetry of the seventeenth century. The sonnets of William Alabaster, a little known recusant poet writing just before the dawn of the century, provide an early example of this influence. Even when Alabaster does not rise above his craftmanship, his poems offer insights into the cultural equipment and habits of mind of the age in which he lived, revealing how meditation could vivify rhetorical invention, injecting it with feeling and passion and transforming the persona of a lyric poem into a dramatic speaker. Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1988 Recusant History Cambridge University Press 19/1(1988-05), 62-79 0034-1932 19:1<62 1988 19 BCH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034193200020148 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034193200020148 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Caro Robert V. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Recusant History Cambridge University Press 19/1(1988-05), 62-79 0034-1932 19:1<62 1988 19 BCH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge