Thick and Dazzling Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age 9780231545976, 9780231173308, 0231545975
How do poets use language to render the transcendent, often dizzyingly inexpressible nature of the divine? In an age of
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English Year 2018
Table of contents :
Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
Acknowledgments --
INTRODUCTION: RELIGIOUS POETRY IN A SECULAR AGE --
1 . A MYSTICAL THEOLOGY OF ANGELIC DESPAIR: WRITING RELIGIOUS POETRY AND THE TRILOGY OF FRANK SAMPERI --
2. ROBINSON JEFFERS, THE MAN FROM WHOM GOD HID EVERYTHING --
3. SPIRITUAL OSMOSIS: ABSORBING THE INFLUENCE IN GEOFFREY HILL'S LATER POETRY --
4. PROPHETIC FRUSTRATIONS: ROBERT DUNCAN'S TRIBUNALS --
5. WHAT LIES BENEATH MY COPY OF ETERNITY? RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE IN THE POETRY OF LISSA WOLSAK --
6. CATHOLICS: READING FANNY HOWE --
7. ROBERT DUNCAN'S CELESTIAL HIERARCHY --
8. THE LONG HUTHERED HAJJ: NATHANIEL MACKEY'S ESOTERICISM --
9. APOCALYPTICISM: A WAY FORWARD FOR POETRY --
CONCLUSION: WHY NOT BE TOTALLY CHANGED INTO FIRE? --
Permissions --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index
Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
Acknowledgments --
INTRODUCTION: RELIGIOUS POETRY IN A SECULAR AGE --
1 . A MYSTICAL THEOLOGY OF ANGELIC DESPAIR: WRITING RELIGIOUS POETRY AND THE TRILOGY OF FRANK SAMPERI --
2. ROBINSON JEFFERS, THE MAN FROM WHOM GOD HID EVERYTHING --
3. SPIRITUAL OSMOSIS: ABSORBING THE INFLUENCE IN GEOFFREY HILL'S LATER POETRY --
4. PROPHETIC FRUSTRATIONS: ROBERT DUNCAN'S TRIBUNALS --
5. WHAT LIES BENEATH MY COPY OF ETERNITY? RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE IN THE POETRY OF LISSA WOLSAK --
6. CATHOLICS: READING FANNY HOWE --
7. ROBERT DUNCAN'S CELESTIAL HIERARCHY --
8. THE LONG HUTHERED HAJJ: NATHANIEL MACKEY'S ESOTERICISM --
9. APOCALYPTICISM: A WAY FORWARD FOR POETRY --
CONCLUSION: WHY NOT BE TOTALLY CHANGED INTO FIRE? --
Permissions --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index
