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Poets with tag Devotional:   Poetry that was written for or used as part of private or public worship, devotional poetry was easily the most popular form of poetry throughout the Romantic era. It was influenced heavily by the devotional poetics of the long eighteenth century as practised by such figures as John Milton, Edward Young, Isaac Watts, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, and Christopher Smart. Romantic devotional poetry included the traditional genres of psaltery, hymns, biblical paraphrases, spiritual songs, and divine poems, but like the eighteenth century, the Romantic era experimented with new genres to express devotional content. Given the religious divisions in Britain, devotional poetry had many political implications regarding such issues as the status of religious minorities, liturgical practices, religious enthusiasm, the role of women, and slavery. While devotional poetry was also seen as quite conservative, many women and lower-class writers employed it as an acceptable form in which to express their political, religious, and social ideas. Despite this wide range of political connotations, devotional poetry at times was seen as an apolitical genre that united British Christians of different denominations in common fellowship. The script ran 0.007 seconds. | ||||