Every Changing Shape

by Jennings, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9781857542479
• ISBN10: 1857542479
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

Every Changing Shape, published in 1961 and now in paperback for the first
time, considers from a Christian poet's perspective how religious or mystical experience informs the imagination. Elizabeth Jennings wrote the book early in her career; it continues to provide crucial readings of her chosen authors and clues to her own poetry.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Definitions and Witnesses: Introduction	p. 13
Images in Abeyance: Aspects of Augustine	p. 20
The Soil of Sanctity: A study of The Cloud of Unknowing	p. 32
The Value of Suffering: Julian of Norwich	p. 41
The Fruitful Waters: A study of the Life of Teresa of Avila	p. 50
The Innocent Audacity: An Approach to St John of the Cross	p. 62
The Lyric Intervention: Herbert and Vaughan	p. 72
The Accessible Art: A study of Thomas Traherne's Centuries of Meditations	p. 83
The Unity of Incarnation: A study of Gerard Manley Hopkins	p. 95
The Power of Compassion: A note of the poetry of Charles Peguy	p. 111
The Secular Angels: A study of Rilke	p. 115
A World of Contradictions: A study of Simone Weil	p. 131
The Vision of Joy: A study of Georges Bernanos	p. 140
The Uses of Allegory: A study of the poetry of Edwin Muir	p. 148
Articulate Music: A study of the mystical content in the plays and Four Quartets of T. S. Eliot	p. 163
The Restoration of Symbols: A study of the poetry of David Gascoyne	p. 190
Vision without Belief: A note on the poetry of Wallace Stevens	p. 201
Voices of Explanation: (1) Poetic Experience by Thomas Gilby, (2) Prayer and Poetry by Henri Bremond	p. 215
'This great wink of eternity': The poetry of Hart Crane	p. 223
Bibliography	p. 234
Index	p. 236
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