"Steps to Church" - Steps to Church

…He then went to Italy and was ordained, but died of illness shortly thereafter. His collection of poems, A Step to the Church (1646, 48), shows his sincere devotion to the collection of poems, The Church, by G. Herbert, a devout Anglican predecessor to him as a religious poet, and shows how the pietistic elements of the Church of England can easily lead to Catholicism. Crashaw's poems, together with the love poems of his early years and the religious poems he wrote later, play a part in the tradition of metaphysical poetry in 17th century England, but behind his imagination lies the fierce burning of sensuality of the Counter-Reformation or Baroque. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "The Journey Towards the Church" is listed below.

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…続いてイタリアへおもむき聖職を得たが，まもなく病没した。詩集《教会への歩み》(1646,48)は，宗教詩人としての先輩であり，敬虔なる国教会派信者であったG.ハーバートの詩集《教会》への真摯な傾倒を示し，英国国教会の敬虔主義的な要素がカトリシズムにつながりやすい側面を表している。クラショーの詩は，ごく若いころの恋愛詩と，それ以後の宗教詩とを合わせて，17世紀イギリスの形而上詩の伝統の一翼を担っているが，その想像力の背景には〈反宗教改革〉または〈バロック〉の，官能性のはげしい燃焼がある。…

※「《教会への歩み》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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