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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Sharpe, Peter, 1948- Ground of our beseeching. Selinsgrove [Pa.] : Susquehanna University Press, ©2004 (OCoLC)607482293 Online version: Sharpe, Peter, 1948- Ground of our beseeching. Selinsgrove [Pa.] : Susquehanna University Press, ©2004 (OCoLC)608886501 |
Named Person: | T S Eliot; Theodore Roethke; Wallace Stevens; T S Eliot; Theodore Roethke; Wallace Stevens |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Sharpe |
ISBN: | 1575910802 9781575910802 |
OCLC Number: | 54767284 |
Description: | 391 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The freshness of a world and the satisfactions of belief -- Regaining kerygma: poetic faith, meditation, and the hermeneutics of metaphor -- While the music lasts -- The vernacular of light -- Hello, thingy sprit. The freshness of a world and the satisfactions of belief -- Regaining kerygma : poetic faith, meditation, and the hermeneutics of metaphor -- While the music lasts -- The vernacular of light -- Hello, thingy spirit. |
Responsibility: | Peter Sharpe. |
Abstract:
This book describes the signature styles of meditation in three American poets, and shows how each generated language out of spiritual yearning. It traces the development of metaphorical practice in Eliot, Stevens, and Roethke.
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