Chapters into Verse: Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible: Volume 1: Genesis to MalachiRobert Atwan, Laurance Wieder Oxford University Press, 6 במאי 1993 - 432 עמודים 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, this tradition 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 that inspired it. Thus readers can conveniently witness the various ways sacred text has sparked the imagination of poets throughout the ages. In Volume I, which covers Genesis to Malachi, almost every book of the Old Testament is represented. The collection features verses both famous and unfamiliar, from Milton's Paradise Lost and Lord Byron's Hebrew Melodies to Christopher Smart's hymns and Mary Herbert's psalms. The editors have included poems by virtually all the prominent religious poets--among them, John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Edward Taylor, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Included, too, are devotional and visionary works from a wide range of vintage poets--Robert Burns, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, 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 Marianne Moore, Delmore Schwartz, Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Countee Cullen, e.e. cummings, William Butler Yeats, Robert Lowell, Hugh McDiarmid, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Charles Reznikoff, A.D. Hope, Geoffrey Hill, Denise Levertov, Philip Levine, John Ashbery, and Derek Walcott. Of enduring interest to readers of both scripture and literature, this anthology illuminates key passages of the Old 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 Into Verse 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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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 18
עמוד xii
... John Donne , 15 Mary and Gabriel , Rupert Brooke , 16 The Song of the Virgin Mary , Miles Coverdale , 18 The Nativity of St. John the Baptist , Christopher Smart , 19 To St John Baptist , Henry Constable , 21 I Sing of a Maiden ...
... John Donne , 15 Mary and Gabriel , Rupert Brooke , 16 The Song of the Virgin Mary , Miles Coverdale , 18 The Nativity of St. John the Baptist , Christopher Smart , 19 To St John Baptist , Henry Constable , 21 I Sing of a Maiden ...
עמוד xiii
... John Donne , 48 from The Everlasting Gospel , William Blake , 48 The Call For the Baptist , William Drummond of Hawthornden , 51 Midnight , Henry Vaughan , 52 My Baptismal Birth - day , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , 53 In the Wilderness ...
... John Donne , 48 from The Everlasting Gospel , William Blake , 48 The Call For the Baptist , William Drummond of Hawthornden , 51 Midnight , Henry Vaughan , 52 My Baptismal Birth - day , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , 53 In the Wilderness ...
עמוד xvi
... John Milton , 168 On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet , Samuel Johnson , 169 ... John Berryman , 175 At a Calvary Near the Ancre , Wilfred Owen , 175 Meditation ... Donne , 198 On the Inscription over the head of Christ on the Cross , Henry ...
... John Milton , 168 On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet , Samuel Johnson , 169 ... John Berryman , 175 At a Calvary Near the Ancre , Wilfred Owen , 175 Meditation ... Donne , 198 On the Inscription over the head of Christ on the Cross , Henry ...
עמוד xvii
... John Donne , 211 Good Friday , Christina Georgina Rossetti , 212 ' O , My Heart is Woe ' , Anonymous , 213 Ode on the Passion , Thomas Warton the Elder , 214 Upon our Savior's Tomb ... , Richard Crashaw , 216 Easter Night , Alice ...
... John Donne , 211 Good Friday , Christina Georgina Rossetti , 212 ' O , My Heart is Woe ' , Anonymous , 213 Ode on the Passion , Thomas Warton the Elder , 214 Upon our Savior's Tomb ... , Richard Crashaw , 216 Easter Night , Alice ...
עמוד xviii
... John Donne , 242 THE ACTS and EPISTLES The Ballad of Joking Jesus , James Joyce ( ACTs ) , 242 Ballad of the Scarecrow Christ , Elder Olson ( ACTS ) , 243 Faith Healing , Philip Larkin ( ACTS ) , 247 There was a Saviour , Dylan Thomas ...
... John Donne , 242 THE ACTS and EPISTLES The Ballad of Joking Jesus , James Joyce ( ACTs ) , 242 Ballad of the Scarecrow Christ , Elder Olson ( ACTS ) , 243 Faith Healing , Philip Larkin ( ACTS ) , 247 There was a Saviour , Dylan Thomas ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
angels beast behold blessed blood bread breath bright called cast CHARLOTTE MEW child Christ CHRISTOPHER SMART Collected Poems Copyright COUNTEE CULLEN cried D. H. LAWRENCE dark dead death disciples dost doth earth EMILY DICKINSON eternal eyes face faith Father fear feast feet fire flesh FRANCIS QUARLES give glory God's gold golden grace hand hath head hear heard heart heaven heavenly hell HENRY VAUGHAN holy Jerusalem Jesus Jews JOHN JOHN DONNE King kingdom Lamb Laura Riding light live look Lord LUKE Mary MATTHEW night o'er Peter poets praise prophets rejoice Reprinted by permission RICHARD CRASHAW ROBERT HERRICK saints saith unto say unto shine sing song soul spirit stars stone stood sweet T.S. Eliot tears thee thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt tree voice W.B. Yeats walk weep whore of Babylon wind wine word