Shivering Babe, Victorious Lord: The Nativity in Poetry and ArtU-M-I Out-of-Print Books on Demand, 1981 - 189 pages |
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... medieval society that swung in violent , unexpected arcs . The medieval laity could delight in the spectacle of an execution and consider it food for their souls , while at another moment they could weep at the pious words of a ...
... medieval society that swung in violent , unexpected arcs . The medieval laity could delight in the spectacle of an execution and consider it food for their souls , while at another moment they could weep at the pious words of a ...
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... medieval belief that life was a cycle of joy and disaster and that Christ was a frail mortal destined at the cradle for the tomb . The acute physical torments suffered by Christ as a babe struck a familiar chord in the medieval ...
... medieval belief that life was a cycle of joy and disaster and that Christ was a frail mortal destined at the cradle for the tomb . The acute physical torments suffered by Christ as a babe struck a familiar chord in the medieval ...
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... medieval Catholic Nativity lullaby in its refreshing simplicity , its denial of senti- mental evangelicalism for a mystical celebration of church symbol and sacrament . Clearly , Rossetti attempted an artful rendition of the medieval ...
... medieval Catholic Nativity lullaby in its refreshing simplicity , its denial of senti- mental evangelicalism for a mystical celebration of church symbol and sacrament . Clearly , Rossetti attempted an artful rendition of the medieval ...
Contents
THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES | 3 |
Mary in the Rose Garden Hans Memling | 5 |
Hand by Hand We Shall Us Take | 10 |
Copyright | |
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Allen Tate ancient angels Anglican Babe beasts Bethlehem bitter withy blessed born bright Catholic century Charles cheer Christ child Christ's birth CHRIST'S NATIVITY Christian Christmas carols church Counter-Reformation court cradle Crashaw crown dear death devotional divine Donne doth Dunbar earth Elizabethan England English Erasmus eyes faith Hans Memling hath heart heaven heavenly HENRY VAUGHAN Henry VIII Henry VIII's Henry's holly holy human hymn Incarnation infant Jesus John Donne Jonson king Lamb Lord Madonna maiden manger Mary Mary's medieval MORNING OF CHRIST'S mother Nativity poems Nativity verse night nobis Puer natus Passion pipe Plate poet poet's poetic poetry Prince Protestant Puritan reign religious Renaissance Ring Robert Southwell Scala secular shepherds sing song SONNET SONNET 62 soul Southwell star sweet symbols T. S. Eliot thee thou tradition Tudor unto verbum caro factum Virgin W. H. Auden WILLIAM ALABASTER William Dunbar York/Florence