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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Typological Water-Cycle in The Poetry of Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne

Abstract

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This dissertation shows that the typological water-cycle--which describes the circuit of the waters of life from Christ to man and back again--is an important pattern of imagery in the poetry of Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne. As in the case with other devotional poets of the seventeenth-century, they rely heavily on biblical poetics and modes of analysis; I argue that the metaphor of the water-cycle has its origins in the complex typology of biblical water-imagery.

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
English
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2014

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Dickson, Donald Richard

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(UMI)AAI8127580
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/66342

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2026-07-22
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citation

Dickson, Donald Richard. The Typological Water-Cycle in The Poetry of Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/66342