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- Title
"Such Fire Is Love": The Bernardine Poetry of St. Robert Southwell, S.J.
- Authors
Shaw, Diana Marie
- Abstract
An essay is presented which explores Elizabethan Jesuit martyr St. Robert Southwell's and missionary-poet St. Bernard of Clairvaux's similar relations to their respective literary cultures, especially in the religious conversion of language of secular love. It describes Southwell's attraction to Bernard of Clairvaux as evocative and illuminating because it is unexpected given the former's Jesuit vocation. It notes how Bernard is an apostle of early modern England fulfilling the role as a contemplative.
- Subjects
SOUTHWELL, Robert, Saint, ca. 1561-1595; MARTYRDOM in Christianity; GARNET, Henry; CONVERSION (Religion); JESUITS; POETRY (Literary form)
- Publication
Christianity & Literature, 2013, Vol 62, Issue 3, p333
- ISSN
0148-3331
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1177/014833311306200302