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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Atwan, Robert. Chapters into Verse, Volume II : Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible: Gospels to Revelation. New York : Oxford University Press, ©1993 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Atwan; Laurance Wieder; Laurance Wider |
| ISBN: | 9780199728039 0199728038 |
| OCLC Number: | 1119448813 |
| Notes: | His Metrical Prayer |
| Description: | 1 online resource (422 pages) |
| Contents: | Introduction -- EXTRACTS -- To the Christians -- The Carpenter's Son -- from Milton, a Poem in 2 Books -- Satire VIII -- The Respectable Burgher -- The H. Scriptures II -- O Grant. . . -- Jesus -- On the Gospel -- H. Scriptures -- N T -- To Him that was Crucified -- THE FOUR GOSPELS HARMONIZED -- Prologue -- In the Beginning -- A Word made Flesh is seldom -- The Body of God -- from The Everlasting Gospel -- The Birth -- The Harp -- The Virgin -- Ave Maria Gratia Plena -- The Annunciation -- On the Marriage of a Virgin -- Annunciation -- Mary and Gabriel The Song of the Virgin Mary -- The Nativity of St. John the Baptist -- To St John Baptist -- I Sing of a Maiden -- Ana-{MARY/ARMY} gram -- Joseph -- A Stick of Incense -- Christmas Day: The Family Sitting -- Nativity -- Upon Christ his birth -- Salus Mundi -- The Nativity -- Christmas Mourning -- 'Unto Us A Child is Born' -- The Shepherds -- New Heaven, New War -- A Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior -- Christus Natus Est -- The Mother of God -- To his Savior. The New years gift. -- Upon the Circumcision -- A Song for Simeon -- The Magi -- To his Savior, a Child -- a Present, by a child The Gift -- The Three Kings -- Holy Family -- The Flight in the Desert -- Lulla, my sweet little baby -- To the Infant Martyrs -- A Curse on Herod -- Christ's Childhood -- Temple -- from The Everlasting Gospel -- The Call -- For the Baptist -- Midnight -- My Baptismal Birth-day -- In the Wilderness -- from Paradise Regained, Bk IV -- The Lamb -- The Wedding Feast -- Cana -- The Signs -- The Night -- The Wind -- But men loved darkness rather than Light -- The Man Who Married Magdalene -- The Master -- Nocturne at Bethesda -- from Jubilate Agno -- Matthew 9. 12 -- Jesus Praying Starlight Like Intuition Pierced the Twelve -- The passionate man's Pilgrimage -- Luke 6. 25 -- The Candle Indoors -- Progress -- Our Father -- The Habit of Perfection -- For Daughters of Magdalen -- A Paraphrase. . . of St. Matthew -- Judge Not -- H. Baptism II -- Across the Sea, Along the Shore -- John -- Saint Mary Magdalene or The Weeper -- For the Magdalene -- The Unpardonable Sin -- The Sower -- On the holy Scriptures -- The Seed growing secretly -- The Kingdom of Heaven ... Mustard-seed -- The Pearl. Matth. 13 -- The Daughter of Herodias -- Portrait (II) -- Salome On S. John the Baptist -- Business Reverses -- In the Twentieth Century -- Walking on Water -- Galilee Shore -- The Drunken Fisherman -- E Tenebris -- The Beloved -- Meditation Eight -- The Given Flesh Returns Nothing but Bread -- When in my Pilgrimage -- "Retro Me, Sathana" -- Do People moulder equally -- The Transfiguration -- Innocence -- A Shropshire Lad: Poem 45 -- from The Everlasting Gospel -- Salutation -- See Lucifer like Lightning Fall -- a man who had fallen among thieves -- The Sons of Martha -- Blessed be the paps -- Love III -- The Fallen Tower of Siloam -- Contrition |
Abstract:
For generations, poets have turned to the Bible for insight and inspiration. What did so many creative minds find in scripture? Is the Bible still a vital source of poetic inspirations? Chapters Into Verse is the first comprehensive collection ever made of poems written in English inspired by the Bible. A groundbreaking anthology, it introduces readers to a distinct heritage of English poetry: the scriptural tradition. Though frequently ignored and sometimes suppressed, thistradition rivals the classical and is every bit as venerable. Drawing a unique map of the history of English poetry, the two volumes of Chapters Into Verse survey and define the literary legacy of the Scriptures from the fourteenth century to the present. Each volume is arranged in scriptural order, and each poem is preceded by the biblical passage thatinspired it. Thus readers can conveniently witness the various ways sacred text has sparked the imagination of poets throughout the ages. Volume II follows the Gospels (harmonized) through Revelation. The collection features verses both famous and unfamiliar, from John Donne's meditative masterpieces to D.H. Lawrence's quirky expostulations. The editors have included poems by virtually all the prominent religious poets--amongthem, John Milton, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Edward Taylor, Christopher Smart, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Included, too, are devotional and visionary works from a wide range of vintage poets--Edmund Spenser, Alexander Pope, Robert Burns, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, ChristinaRossetti, Alfred Tennyson, and Robert Browning. Proving that the Bible is just as powerful a source of inspiration today as it was in the past, the collection assembles a mixed congregation of modern and contemporary poets, such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Delmore Schwartz, Dylan.
Thomas, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, WilliamButler Yeats, John Berryman, Robert Graves, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Lee Murray, Amy Clampitt, and Richard Wilbur. Of enduring interest to readers of both scripture and literature, this anthology illuminates key passages of the New Testament. The measured speech and inspired leaps of poetry offer a spirited alternative to the textual exegesis usually supplied by prose commentary. As such, Chapters IntoVerse is truly a poets' Bible. In selection after selection, readers will encounter an astonishing variety of religious experiences, as a host of poets from many eras and many backgrounds respond to Holy Scripture spiritually, profoundly, and imaginatively.
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