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This chapter demonstrates that Richard Crashaw's "The Weeper" is more theologically nuanced and religiously significant than many readers have recognized. Central to its poetics is the principle of kenosis or the mode of divine generosity in which poverty and abundance coincide.

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This page is a summary of: The poetry of tears and the metaphysics of grief: Richard Crashaw's “The Weeper”, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511481444.003.
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