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Ecstasy and understanding : religious awareness in English poetry from the late Victorian to the modern period /
This collection of research explores the interaction of religious awareness and literary expression in English poetry in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Many different types of poetics may be seen to be at work in the period 1875 to 2005, along with various kinds of religious awareness...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2008.
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| Colección: | Continuum literary studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Gerard Manley Hopkins as religious conduit in Geoffrey Hill, George Mackay Brown and Edwin Muir; 2 From the beauty of religion to the religion of beauty: Catholicism and aestheticism in fin-de-siecle poetry; 3 The heart''s censer: liturgy, poetry and the Catholic devotional revolution; 4 Hymns in a man''s life: the Congregational chapel and D.H. Lawrence''s early poetry; 5 Slouching towards Bethlehem: Yeats, Eliot, and the Modernist Apocalypse; 6 ''The unattended moment'': selfhood and the experience of the transcendent in Four Quartets.
- 7 ''If/Sins can be forgiven, if bodies rise from the dead'': forgiveness and the body in Auden''s post-conversion poems8 Kathleen Raine''s song of the living soul; 9 The sacrificial victim in David Jones''s In Parenthesis; 10 ''For the failure of language there is no redress'': R.S. Thomas, poetry and prayer; 11 The metaphysical joke: church going with Philip Larkin; 12 ''Metamorphic power'': Geoffrey Hill and Gerard Manley Hopkins; 13 Simone Weil among the poets; 14 Unpropitious: Christian poetry and ''now''; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y.