The Donna Angelica and the British Enlightenment Poets - Six Studies from Butler to Crabbe

This is the first book to study how a vital element of European Renaissance culture, the motif of the angelic lady, is translated into the British Enlightenment by some major seventeenth- as well as eighteenth-century poets. It offers a close study of the motif's various modernization, locating that inclusively within the history of ideas