Hester Pulter's Psalmic Poems

dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage364
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue3
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage383
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume37
dc.contributor.affiliationHatton, Nikolina;
dc.contributor.authorHatton, Nikolina
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-24T07:36:39Z
dc.date.available2023-07-24T07:36:39Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.date.updated2023-07-12T02:03:42Z
dc.description.abstract<title xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">Abstract</title><p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xml:lang="en">This essay examines the use of psalm structures, rhetoric, and poetics in the devotional poetry of Hester Pulter, a mid‐seventeenth‐century Royalist manuscript poet. Scholarship has shown the adaptability of the voice of the psalms, how it is amendable to both an ‘I’ and a ‘we’ simultaneously. Pulter takes advantage of this flexibility: although these poems generally express the spiritual woes and longings of a lone speaker, Pulter's use of recognizable psalm patterns and motifs situates her poetry within a broader community that engages with the psalms through corporate worship. Pulter thus melds her own distinctive (Royalist) poetic voice with a psalm framework recognizable to any protestant reader, whatever their political orientation. Writing psalmic poems gives Pulter not only a means of expressing her private devotions in an acceptable religious form, but it also allows her to invoke an audience for her poems, an audience that may in turn blend their own voices with the voice of this lone Royalist woman.</p>en
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/rest.12821
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2940
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.issn0269-1213
dc.relation.issn1477-4658
dc.relation.journalRenaissance Studiesen
dc.rightsThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.rightsL::CC BY 4.0
dc.subject.ddcddc:820
dc.subject.fieldenglishstudies
dc.subject.fieldliterarystudies
dc.titleHester Pulter's Psalmic Poemsen
dc.typearticle
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