Author : Denise Levertov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811213547
Conceived as a convenience to those readers concerned with doubt and faith, Denise Levertov's 34 selected poems originally were published in seven separate volumes. The earliest dates from 1978, and the group together more or less traces Levertov's slow movement from agnosticism to Christian faith.
Author : Denise Levertov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 1997-05-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811222403
Conceived as a convenience to those readers concerned with doubt and faith, Denise Levertov's 34 selected poems originally were published in seven separate volumes. The poet presents a selection of thirty-four of her own poems culled from previously published volumes, tracing her movement from agnosticism to Christian faith and her oscillation from doubt to affirmation along the way.
Author : Michael P. Murphy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 21,42 MB
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1532677367
That Denise Levertov (1923–97) was one of the most pioneering and skilled poets of her generation is beyond dispute. Her masterly use of language, innovative experimentations with organic form, and the political acuity disclosed by her activist poetry are well marked by critical communities. But it is also quite clear that the poems Levertov wrote in the last twenty years of her life, with their more explicit focus on theological themes and subjects, are among the best poems written on religious experience of any century, let alone the twentieth. The collection of essays gathered here shed vital light on this neglected aspect of Levertov studies so as to expand and enrich the scope of critical engagement. In a mixture of theoretical considerations and close readings, these essays provide valuable reflections about the complex relationship between poetry and belief and offer philosophically robust insights into different styles of poetic imagination. The abiding hope is to broaden the terrain for discussions in twenty-first-century theology, literary theory, poetics, and aesthetics—honoring immanence, exploring transcendence, and dwelling with integrity within the spaces between.
Author : Eric L. Haralson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131776322X
The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.
Author : David Martin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0718895789
David Martin was one of the world’s leading commentators on secularization theory. He was also a committed and lifelong reader of English poetry. Christianity and ‘The World’ develops Martin’s argument against simplistic secularization narratives with reference to the history of poetry, a topic with which few social theorists have been concerned. Martin shows the enduring but ever-changing centrality of Christian thought and practice, in its many different forms, to English poetry. Always mindful that the most important aspects of poetry’s history can be captured only by attending to the minutest particulars of individual poems and poets, Martin’s study sheds unexpected light on a wide range of English poets, from Spenser and Shakespeare to T.S. Eliot and Geoffrey Hill. The result is a study at once informed by an authoritative sociological perspective on secularization and richly coloured by the singular intensity of Martin’s own reading life.
Author : Gloria L. Cronin
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1294 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1438140614
Presents a reference on Jewish American literature providing profiles of Jewish American writers and their works.
Author : Roger Housden
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 25,53 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0307421775
Ten Poems to Open Your Heart is a book devoted to love: to the intimacy of personal love and lovemaking, to a loving compassion for others, and to the love that embraces both this world and the next. This new volume from Roger Housden features a few of the same poets as his extraordinarily moving Ten Poems to Change Your Life, such as Mary Oliver and Pablo Neruda, along with contributions from Sharon Olds, Wislawa Szymborska, Czeslaw Milosz, Denise Levertov, and others. Any one of the ten poems and, indeed, any one of Housden’s reflections on them, can open, gladden, or pierce your heart. Through the voices of these ten inspiring poets, and through illustrations from his own life, Housden expresses the tenderness, beauty, joys, and sorrows of love, the presence of which, more than anything else, gives human existence its meaning. As Housden says in his eloquent introduction, “Great poetry happens when the mind is looking the other way and words fall from the sky to shape a moment that would normally be untranslatable. . . . When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.” From the Hardcover edition.
Author : James Persoon
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 2054 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 1438140746
Presents a comprehensive A to Z reference with approximately 450 entries providing facts about contemporary British poets, including their major works of poetry, concepts and movements.
Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 2896 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Bio-bibliography
ISBN : 1438140649
Presents articles on feminist literature, including significant authors, themes and history.
Author : Denise Levertov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811216401
"The poems gathered here span the last three decades of Levertov's life, their subjects ranging from Vietnam to the death-squads of El Salvador to the first Gulf War." -- Back cover. -- Provided by publisher.
