Poetry & Religion : Figures Of The Sacred.
Title:
Poetry & Religion : Figures Of The Sacred.
Author:
Bockting, Ineke.
ISBN:
9783035105940
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1 online resource (371 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents 7 -- Preface PAULINE PIETTRE 11 -- Acknowledgments 13 -- Introduction INEKE BOCKTING, JENNIFER KILGORE-CARADEC, CATHY PARC 15 -- Natural Theology in the Works of Middle English Mystics and Mevlana Jalalu'ddin Rumi SEBNEM KAYA 17 -- Thomas Traherne's Intuitive Knowledge of 'ALL THINGS' in the Commentaries of Heaven CASSANDRA GORMAN 35 -- Virtuous Wordplay in George Herbert's Anglican Manifesto JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VAN THIENEN 55 -- Sounding The Temple: George Herbert and the Mystery of Hearkening GARY KUCHAR 71 -- Sucking 'the sincere milk of the word' (1Peter 2:2) in Herbert's Temple (1633) GUILLAUME COATALEN 91 -- Eighteenth Century German and Pope's 'Essay on Man' CATHERINE FLEMING 103 -- Getting Back to (Human) Nature: Personality as Sacrament in G.M. Hopkins STEPHEN TARDIF 127 -- 'It is man's privilege to doubt': Alfred Tennyson and the Poetry of Doubt PAOLA PARTENZA 145 -- Hardy: the Churchiest Skeptic JOHN FAWELL 169 -- 'Tune me, O Lord, into one harmony': Christina Rossetti and the Poetics of Eternity MÉLODY ENJOUBAULT 181 -- Prayer, Rite and Lack in Keats's 'Ode to Psyche' and' The Eve of St. Agnes' CHRISTOPHER STOKES 199 -- Annunciations JANE AVNER 209 -- Songs of Singularity: The Two Ways of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Graves ANNE MOUNIC 229 -- Spirituality and Disaffiliation in T.S. Eliot's 'Gerontion' and Wallace Stevens's 'Sunday Morning' MURIELLE CAYOUETTE 249 -- 'When Birds in Glory Come': Religion into Poetry in Hopkins' 'The Windhover', Yeats' 'Leda and the Swan' and Eliot's 'Little Gidding IV' MONIQUE LOJKINE-MORELEC 261 -- Faith, Doubt and Blasphemy in Contemporary Caribbean British Poetry MONICA MANOLACHI 281 -- 'Tongue(s) of Fire': Echoes of the Sacred in Elizabeth Jennings's Poetry CATHY PARC 305 -- A Southern Sanctity: James Dickey's 'The Heaven of Animals' INEKE BOCKTING 329.
'In terms of grace and carnal loss': Oraclau/Oracles by Geoffrey Hill JENNIFER KILGORE-CARADEC 343 -- Contributors 365.
Abstract:
Poetry and religion have been linked since the first written texts of humanity, even before the Psalms of the Hebrew Bible. Exploring the relationship between poetry and religion within the realm of poetry in English, this volume begins in medieval times and ends with a collection of poems published in 2010, with strong emphasis given to the metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century. Nineteen essays cover the work of poets from various periods and continents, ranging from Julian of Norwich and the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing to Thomas Traherne, George Herbert, John Donne, Alexander Pope, John Keats, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Robert Graves, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, R.S. Thomas, Grace Nichols, Jean Breeze, Elizabeth Jennings, James Dickey, and Geoffrey Hill. This book will be of special interest to lovers and scholars of poetry. Close reading of texts, combined with original research and varying critical frameworks, provide a stimulus to read or re-read the poems discussed. The texts in this volume represent the papers given at an international symposium held at the Institut Catholique de Paris in 2011.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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