Faith in poetry : verse style as a mode of religious belief /
In this book, the author explores how five great writers, William Blake, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins and T. S. Eliot, engaged their religious faith in poetry, with a view to asking why they chose that literary form in the first place. What did they believe poetry could...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2018].
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| Series: | New directions in religion and literature.
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| Summary: | In this book, the author explores how five great writers, William Blake, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins and T. S. Eliot, engaged their religious faith in poetry, with a view to asking why they chose that literary form in the first place. What did they believe poetry could say or do that other kinds of language or expression could not? And how might poetry itself operate as a unique mode of believing? These deep questions meet at the crossroads of poetics and metaphysics, and the writers considered here offer different answers. |
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| Physical Description: | 201 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474234078 1474234070 |