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Angels Charge
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Author_Liam Semler
Bee
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Carefull Bee
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Chine
Dear Prince
devotional poetry
Doe
early modern women writers
enemies
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Follow
Gcd
Glorious Throne
god
great
haft
Hold
Ill
JI
Live
mine
plain style theology
Poor
Poor Foul
printed
Puritan literature
religious meditations
Rhe World
seventeenth-century verse
spiritual marriage allegory
T1
thou
Thou Canft
Thou Haft
Thou Wouldft
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Tl Bee
Tour
writings
Product details
- ISBN 9780754630951
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 123 x 186mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jul 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This facsimile edition reproduces the work titled Eliza's Babes which was first published in 1652. The volume comprises devotional and political verse and prose meditations. The poems cover a wide range of forms from verse epistles to poetic petitions, religious love lyrics to poems on earthly marriage, exultant poetic prayers to stern spiritual admonitions. The meditations are fine examples of the Puritan believer's plain-style response to various biblical texts, theological issues and political events. The text is historically and aesthetically unique. It reveals its anonymous author to be perhaps the first woman to publish substantial creative imitations of poems printed in George Herbert's The Temple (1633) and to rely upon and respond to Robert Herrick's Hesperides (1648). Eliza's Babes is a literary work of great originality. The narrator lives out her estate of salvation as an almost literally experienced marriage of election to Christ her Saviour. In a series of poems, 'Eliza' overcomes her initial shock and disappointment that her heavenly spouse has chosen an earthly partner for her, though this partner's prerogative is noticeably confined to the subservient role of facilitating his wife's heavenly marriage. The copy reproduced in this edition is the British Library text.
Selected and Introduced by Liam Semler
