The “finenesse” of Devotional Poetry: An Collins and the School of Herbert
2014
An Collins is a unique and fascinating writer, whose work is rightly being
extensively investigated and analyzed in this volume. In order to understand fully
her position in the history of seventeenth-century English literature, it is important
to set her Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653) in the relevant contexts. These
include her personal and medical history, the political circumstances through which
she lived and to which she alluded, the generic traditions available to her, and her
doctrinal allegiances. As part of this process of contextualizing Collins’s work, the
present essay situates her poetry in relation to an important literary and devotional
tradition: that is, the influence and inspiration of George Herbert’s lyrics.1
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