Robert B. Caro (essay date October 1988)
SOURCE: Caro, Robert B. “William Alabaster: Rhetor, Meditator, Devotional Poet—II: Alabaster's Meditative Sonnets.” Recusant History 19, no. 2 (October 1988): 155-70.
[In the following essay, Caro examines the style of Alabaster's meditative sonnets and demonstrates how they anticipate subsequent developments in the rhetorical and meditative traditions.]
As we approach Alabaster's sonnets1 our expectation is enhanced not by the promise of poetic greatness but by the prospect of exploring...
Source: Literary Criticism (1400-1800), ©2003 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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