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- Title
STANDING IN THE GAP: URIAN OAKES'S ELEGY ON THOMAS SHEPARD.
- Authors
Scheick, William J.
- Abstract
The article critiques the poem "An Elegie upon That Reverend, Learned, Eminently Pious, and Singularly Accomplished Divine, My Ever Honoured Brother Mr. Thomas Shepard," by Urian Oakes, particularly commenting on the Puritan practice of flattering the dead. It notes the elegy's to the Puritan sermon, explores the difference between Oakes's elegy and traditional Puritan sermons, and addresses the relation between the spiritual and the corporeal.
- Subjects
AMERICAN poetry; FLATTERY in literature; ELEGIE Upon That Reverend, Learned, Eminently Pious &; Singularly Accomplished Divine, My Ever Honoured Brother Mr. Thomas Shepard, An (Poem); OAKES, Urian; PURITANS in literature; SPIRITUALITY in literature; SHEPARD, Thomas, 1605-1649; ELEGIAC poetry; REVOLUTIONARY (Literary period); 19TH century (Literary period)
- Publication
Early American Literature, 1975, Vol 9, Issue 3, p301
- ISSN
0012-8163
- Publication type
Poetry Review