Gifts and Graces: Prayer, Poetry, and Polemic from Lancelot Andrewes to John Bunyan

224 Pages·2021·3 MB·English

by  David Gay

GIFTS AND GRACES
Prayer, Poetry, and Polemic from Lancelot Andrewes
to John Bunyan
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DAVID GAY
Gifts and Graces
Prayer, Poetry, and Polemic from
Lancelot Andrewes to John Bunyan
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
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©University of Toronto Press 2021
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Title: Gifts and graces : prayer, poetry, and polemic from Lancelot Andrewes
to John Bunyan / David Gay.
Names: Gay, David, 1955– author.
Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 2020041643X | Canadiana (ebook)
20200416588 | ISBN 9781487505288 (cloth) | ISBN 9781487531928 (EPUB) |
ISBN 9781487531911 (PDF)
Subjects: LCSH: English literature – Early modern, 1500–1700 – History and
criticism. | LCSH: Christian poetry, English – Early modern, 1500–1700 –
History and criticism. | LCSH: Prayer – England – History – 17th century. |
LCSH: Religion and literature – England – History – 17th century. | LCSH:
Polemics in literature. | LCSH: Prayer in literature. | LCSH: Andrewes,
Lancelot, 1555–1626 – Criticism and interpretation. | LCSH: Herbert, George,
1593–1633 – Criticism and interpretation. | LCSH: Vaughan, Henry, 1621–
1695 – Criticism and interpretation. | LCSH: Taylor, Jeremy, 1613–1667 –
Criticism and interpretation. | LCSH: Milton, John, 1608–1674 – Criticism
and interpretation. | LCSH: Bunyan, John, 1628–1688 – Criticism and
interpretation.
Classification: LCC PR428.R46 G39 2021 | DDC 820.9/3823–dc23
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University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its
publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts
Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
Funded by the Financé par le
Government gouvernement
of Canada du Canada
In Memoriam
James F. Forrest
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Abbreviations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 3
1 Lancelot Andrewes and George Herbert: The Word
of Charity 14
2 Jeremy Taylor and Henry Vaughan: The Stock of Nature
and Art 49
3 John Milton (1634–1650): The Spirit of Utterance 83
4 John Milton (1650–1674): The Spirit of Prayer 101
5 John Bunyan: The Nameless Terrible Instrument 129
Afterword 163
Notes 167
Bibliography 189
Index 203
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List of Illustrations
1 Frontispiece: Book of Common Prayer (1700) 4
2 1611 Title page: Lancelot Andrewes’s Nineteen Sermons
Concerning Prayer (1611) 27
3 Title page: Andrewes’s Institutiones Piae or Directions
to Pray (1630) 28
4 Frontispiece for Richard Drake, A manual of the private
devotions and meditations of The Right Reverend Father
in God Lancelot Andrews (1648) 34
5 Title page and frontispiece: Jeremy Taylor’s A Collection
of Offices (1658) 65
6 Frontispiece: Eikon Basilike, engraved by William Marshall
(1649) 93
7 Illustration by Jean-Baptiste de Medina. Paradise Lost;
A Poem in Twelve Books 1688) 105
8 Frontispiece: The Holy War by John Bunyan (1682) 155