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Author Burrows, Mark S

Title Poetic Revelations : Word Made Flesh Made Word
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (277 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: poetry, Incarnation and 'the wonder of unexpected supply'; PART I Word made Word: poetry and the re-making of the world; 1 Poetry human and divine; 2 'The Word spoke in our words that we might speak in his': Augustine, the Psalms and the poetry of the incarnate Word; 3 The Word of God woven into the poetic word: the idea of Logos in the poetry of George Herbert and Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski; 4 'Eternity shut in a span': the Word being born and giving birth in the poetry of Richard Crashaw
5 Elizabeth Jennings and the mysticism of wordsPART II Flesh made Word: poetry as the shaping of the self; 6 Revelation and inspiration among theologians and poets; 7 Word made flesh made word: on the poetic force of Macbeth; 8 'Like a word still ripening in the silences': Rainer Maria Rilke and the transformations of poetry; 9 The logos of the guess; 10 Still-born words and still life worlds in the poetry of T.S. Eliot; PART III Word made flesh: the poem as body enclosed in language; 11 Incarnations in the ear: on poetry and presence
12 T.S. Eliot on metaphysical poetry and the case of Prufrock13 'The poem's muscle, blood and lymph': David Constantine's poetic bodies; 14 Divine eloquence: R.S. Thomas and the matter of Logos; 15 Incarnation and the feminine in David Jones's In Parenthesis; Epilogue: poetry as vehicle of divine presence; Index of scriptural references; Index of persons; Subject index
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Subject Religious poetry -- History and criticism
Religious poetry
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Grzegorzewska, Małgorzata
ISBN 9781317079545
131707954X