Acquainted with the Night: The Shadow of Death in Contemporary Poetry

by Johnson, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9781561012510
• ISBN10: 1561012513
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Cowley Pubns

Summary

A study of death, via author comments, as it appears in the works of contemporary poets providing a Christian appreciation of it within a context of tradition and circumstances.

Table of Contents

Biographical Notes on the Poets	p. 1
Introduction	p. 5
Setting the Stage: Poetry and Faith	p. 13
Death in Recent Poetry	p. 27
Blood Lines: The Laments of Geoffrey Hill	p. 41
The Taste of Death: Scott Cairns	p. 67
Childhood and Memory: Mark Jarman	p. 89
Kneeling in the Dark: R.S. Thomas	p. 111
To Know the Dark: Wendell Berry	p. 133
Afterword	p. 155
Selected Readings	p. 157
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