The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse
Author : Daniel Howard Sinclair Nicholson
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Page : 668 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 1953
Category : English poetry
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Author : Daniel Howard Sinclair Nicholson
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Page : 668 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 1953
Category : English poetry
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Author : Daniel Howard Sinclair Nicholson
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Page : 672 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 1924
Category : English poetry
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Author : Daniel Howard Sinclair Nicholson
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Page : 644 pages
File Size : 39,94 MB
Release : 1949
Category : English poetry
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Author : James Rhoades
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Page : 26 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 1912
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Page : 644 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 1921
Category : English poetry
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Page : 672 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 1917
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : William Cowper
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 1810
Category : English poetry
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Author : Denis E. McAuley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191634395
Muhyī l-Dīn Ibn `Arabī (1165-1240) was a hugely influential figure in the development of Sufism, yet although interest in his work continues to grow, his poetry has received very little attention. This book is the first full-length monograph devoted to his Dīwān (collected poems). It begins by attempting to define Ibn `Arabī's poetic style and his understanding of poetics, which is closely intertwined with his metaphysics: the rhythms of poetry echo those of creation, and meaning combines with form just as the spirit descends on matter. Drawing on a pre-Islamic theme, he insists that his poetry was revealed to him word for word by a spirit. At the same time, however, his attitude to the function of poetry and its relation to scripture is closer to mainstream medieval Islamic, Jewish and Christian theology than has usually been thought. Denis E. McAuley focuses on close readings of books in unusual verse forms, including poetic responses to chapters of the Qur'an; imitations of earlier poets; poems that use only one rhyme word; and a cycle of poems modelled on the letters of the alphabet. In so doing, he makes frequent comparisons with other Islamic and European poets from the sixth century to the dawn of the twentieth, many of them virtually unstudied. Ibn `Arabī emerges as a highly original poet whose work casts a fresh light on the period and on classical Arabic literature as a whole.
Author : Francis Otto Matthiessen
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Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 1978
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