Title Statements
- Full title :Poetry and prayer / edited by Francesca Bugliani Knox, Heythrop College, University of London, UK, John Took, University College London, UK.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Ashgate
- Place of Publication:Farnham Surrey, England
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 249 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781472426215, 1472426215
- oclc:ocn906027821
- LC Classification:PN1077
- Dewey Decimal:809.1/9382
Table of Contents
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES. Poetry and Prayer: A Survey of Some Twentieth-Century Studies / David Lonsdale -- 'Prayer is the Little Implement': Poetic Speech and the Gestures of Prayer in Christian Traditions / Mark S. Burrows -- Poetry at the Threshold of Prayer / Antonio Spadaro SJ -- Poetry as Immanence: How Language Informs Reality / Jay Parini -- Poetry and Prayer: "An Inner Kinship" / Jennifer Reek -- CASE STUDIES: PRE-MODERNITY. Poetic Art and Prayer in Psalm 145 / David Rensberger -- Prayer and Prayerfulness in Dante / John Took -- Prayer, Poetry and Silence: A Musical Correspondence / Matgorzata Grzegorzewska -- CASE STUDIES: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Re-imagining Prayer: Coming Out of Hiding? R.S. Thomas and Tadeusz Róewicz / Jean Ward -- Saturday Prayers: R.S. Thomas and the Search for a Silent God / Richard McLauchlan -- Thomas Merton's Poetry and Prayer / Sarah Law -- W.H. Auden and the Deep Language of Poetic Prayer / Hester Jones -- Denise Levertov: Poetry as a Way to Prayer / Dana Greene.
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