Ecstasy and Understanding (eBook, PDF)

Religious Awareness in English Poetry from the Late Victorian to the Modern Period
Redaktion: Grafe, Adrian

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Produktbeschreibung

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 and poetic expression. Religious experience has a crucial influence on literary language, and the latter is renewed by religious culture. The religious dimension has been a decisive factor of modern English poetic expression of the last hundred years or so. The religious and mystical dimension of poetry of the period is borne out by the focus on, among other things, grace and purgation, the tension between time and eternity, redemption and the demands of eschatology, immanence and transcendence, and conversion and martyrdom. Chapters also explore how church practice and ritual, architecture and liturgy, play into the poetry of the period. This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of this important but often overlooked aspect of modern English poetry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441193131
• Artikelnr.: 40774682

Autorenporträt

Adrian Grafe is Senior Lecturer in the English Faculty at Paris IV Sorbonne, France.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction
Adrian Grafe (Paris IV
Sorbonne
France) 1.Gerard Manley Hopkins as religious conduit in Geoffrey Hill
George Mackay Brown and Edwin Muir
Catherine Phillips (Cambridge University) 2. From the Beauty of religion to the religion of beauty: Catholicism and aestheticism in fin-de-siècle poetry
Claire Masurel-Murray (Paris III
France) 3. The heart's censer: Liturgy
poetry and the Catholic devotional revolution
Maureen Moran (Brunel University) 4. Hymns in a man's life: The Congregational chapel and D.H. Lawrence's early poetry
Andrew Harrison (University of Darmstadt) 5. Slouching towards Bethlehem: Yeats
Eliot and the Modernist Apocalypse
David Rudrum (London Metropolitan University) 6.'The unattended moment': Selfhood and the experience of the transcendent in Eliot's Four Quartets
David Summers (Capital University
Ohio) 7. 'If/Sins can be forgiven
if bodies rise from the dead': forgiveness and the body in Auden's post-conversion poems
Kathleen Bell (De Montfort University) 8. Kathleen Raine: Song of the living soul
Annick Johnson (Artois University) 9.The sacrificial victim in David Jones's In Parenthesis
Roland Bouyssou (Toulouse Mirail University
France) 10.'For the failure of language there is no redress': R.S. Thomas
poetry and prayer
Daniel Szabo (Paris 7 University
France) 11. The metaphysical joke: church going with Philip Larkin
Andrew McKeown (University of Poitiers
France) 12. 'Metamorphic power': Geoffrey Hill and Gerard Manley Hopkins
Emily Taylor Merriman (Boston University) 13. Simone Weil among the poets
Adrian Grafe (Paris IV
Sorbonne
France) 14. Christian poetry and 'now'
Michael Edwards (Collège de France
Paris) Index