Download or read book Politics, Religion and the Song of Songs in Seventeenth-Century England written by E. Clarke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Song of Songs , with its highly sexual imagery, was very popular in seventeenth-century England in commentary and paraphrase. This book charts the fascination with the mystical marriage, its implication in the various political conflicts of the seventeenth century, and its appeal to seventeenth-century writers, particularly women.