Product Description : Sir Richard Blackmore and the Bible Sir Richard Blackmore 16501729 was deeply affected by the Protestant poetic trends in England which favored the Sacred Scriptures as a source for what was termed divine poetry His preference also prized the religious poetic trends as a spiritual weapon against vice and atheism His advocacy of ideas upholding virtue morality and Christianity in a world that was undergoing phenomenal changes in its mores served as a backbone for the renewal and strengthening of the increasing popularity of divine poetry This work further explores the Bibles influence on Blackmores physicotheological poems his personal notions of a Creator and his scientific ideas ( it is an used product )