Ecstasy and Understanding Religious Awareness in English Poetry from the Late Victorian to the Modern Period

by Grafe, Adrian

• ISBN13: 9780826498649
• ISBN10: 0826498647
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781441193131
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-03
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

An original contribution to understanding of an important but overlooked aspect of modern poetry, offering a comparative approach to the topic.

Author Biography

Adrian Grafe is Senior Lecturer in the English Faculty at Paris IV Sorbonne, France.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Gerard Manley Hopkins as religious conduit in Geoffrey Hill, George Mackay Brown and Edwin Muir	p. 6
From the beauty of religion to the religion of beauty: Catholicism and aestheticism in fin-de-siecle poetry	p. 16
The heart's censer: liturgy, poetry and the Catholic devotional revolution	p. 27
Hymns in a man's life: the Congregational chapel and D. H. Lawrence's early poetry	p. 46
Slouching towards Bethlehem: Yeats, Eliot, and the Modernist Apocalypse	p. 58
'The unattended moment': selfhood and the experience of the transcendent in Four Quartets	p. 71
'If/Sins can be forgiven, if bodies rise from the dead': forgiveness and the body in Auden's post-conversion poems	p. 84
Kathleen Raine's song of the living soul	p. 105
The sacrificial victim in David Jones's In Parenthesis	p. 115
'For the failure of language there is no redress': R.S. Thomas, poetry and prayer	p. 124
The metaphysical joke: church going with Philip Larkin	p. 135
'Metamorphic power': Geoffrey Hill and Gerard Manley Hopkins	p. 145
Simone Weil among the poets	p. 161
Unpropitious: Christian poetry and 'now'	p. 172
Index	p. 181
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