Heaven in ordinary : poetry and religion in a secular age
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Heaven in ordinary : poetry and religion in a secular age
Lutterworth Press, 2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Heaven in Ordinary is like a love affair with poetry that engages with religious questions, for good or ill, concerned with five poets who are haunted by God. Poets, in times of great faith and times of doubt, have expressed for us their sense of both the presence and the absence of God in language that is sometimes almost sacramental in its weight of beauty, love, fear, anger or despair. The poets considered here all relate, in some way, to the traditions of Anglicanism through the centuries, reflecting both a common humanity and a wide breadth of human experience as it struggles with God. Heaven in Ordinary is deliberately autobiographical in approach, as it is grounded in David Jasper's own lifetime experience of reading poetry since his school years, and over four decades as a priest. The poets he so beautifully discusses have related both positively and negatively to the Christian faith and the Anglican tradition. Some are deeply religious, others are haunted by God and the divine mystery.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Thomas Hardy: Faith and Doubt
3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Words as Living Things
4. Thomas Traherne: Objects of Happiness
5. Sir Philip Sidney: High Matter in Noble Form
6. Sir Geoffrey Hill: The Strange Flesh Untouched
7. The Pastoral Tradition in English Poetry
8. Conclusion: or, Last Words
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