“Whereas Crashaw renders an atmosphere by evoking a myriad of fleeting images from baroque sacred art and Jesuit emblem books, the Protestant poets often interpret biblical and sacred metaphors in images which are, like the Protestant discrete emblems, strongly visual, logically precise, and elaborately detailed” (Lewalski, Protestant Poetics, p. 197).
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