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1	Protestants Reading Catholicism: Crashaw's Reformed Readership Davis, Andrew Dean 14 August 2009 (has links) This thesis seeks to realign Richard Crashaw’s aesthetic orientation with a broadly conceptualized genre of seventeenth-century devotional, or meditative, poetry. This realignment clarifies Crashaw’s worth as a poet within the Renaissance canon and helps to dismantle historicist and New Historicist readings that characterize him as a literary anomaly. The methodology consists of an expanded definition of meditative poetry, based primarily on Louis Martz’s original interpretation, followed by a series of close readings executed to show continuity between Crashaw and his contemporaries, not discordance. The thesis concludes by expanding the genre of seventeenth-century devotional poetry to include Edward Taylor, who despite his Puritanism, also exemplifies many of the same generic attributes as Crashaw. Puritans New Historicism Meditative poetry Louis Martz Genre Theory Catholicism Metaphysical poets Steps to the Temple Richard Crashaw Edward Taylor English Language and Literature