Poets' meeting : George Herbert, R.S. Thomas, and the argument with God

Author(s)

    • McGill, William J.

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Poets' meeting : George Herbert, R.S. Thomas, and the argument with God

William J. McGill

McFarland, c2004

  • : pbk

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-216) and index

Contents of Works

  • The calling : the vocations of priest and poet
  • "A little aside from the main road" : country parsons
  • The word and the poets : the Bible
  • Speaking to God : prayer
  • The bread of truth : the Eucharist
  • "Faith makes me anything and all"
  • "One cunning bosome-sinne"
  • "Love bade me welcome" : "love fiercer than we can understand"
  • "Oh what a thing is man!"
  • Cross-pollination : "truth's flower"
  • "The sky-rhyming child" : the Incarnation
  • "This strange and uncouth thing" : the Good Friday poems
  • "To run, rise, rest with thee" : Easter
  • At the end
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