The new Oxford book of Christian verse

Author(s)

• Davie, Donald

Bibliographic Information

The new Oxford book of Christian verse

chosen and edited by Donald Davie

Oxford University Press, 2003, c1981

Other Title

Book of Christian verse

Christian verse

Note

First published 1981

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-311) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

What is meant by `Christian' verse? What must there be in a passage of verse that gives us the right to call it `Christian'? These are the questions discussed in Professor Davie's illuminating introduction and answered implicitly on every page of his collection of over 260 poems. This well-loved anthology embraces everything from the Anglo-Saxon 'The Dream of the Rood' to the works of modern poets such as T. S. Eliot, Sir John Betjeman, W. H. Auden, and John Berryman. Australian and American poetry appears alongside English, Anglo-Irish, Scottish, and Anglo-Welsh verse, and the book also includes a selection of congregational hymns.

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Details

• NCID: BA65709786
• ISBN:
  • 0192804863
• LCCN: 2003279055
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: xxix, 319 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR1195.C48
  • DC22 : 821.008/03823
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Christian poetry, English
  • LCSH : Christian poetry, American