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Before the door of God : an anthology of devotional poetry /

Before the Door of God traces the development of devotional English-language poetry from its origins in ancient hymnody to its current twenty-first-century incarnations. The poems in this volume demonstrate not only that devotional poetry--poetry that speaks to the divine--remains in vigorous practi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hopler, Jay, 1970-2022 (Editor ), Johnson, Kimberly, 1971- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Hebrew
Griego Antiguo
Latín
Old English
Publicado: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The ancient origins of the devotional lyric
  • Early Christian lyrics through the fifteenth century
  • Psalm translations of the English Renaissance: the Bible as art
  • The flourishing of the devotional lyric in the post-Reformation era
  • The poetic sublime: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
  • The devotional lyric in the modern era
  • The twentieth-century devotional lyric after modernism
  • The twenty-first-century devotional lyric.