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. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 61
עמוד xii
... Holy Family , Muriel Rukeyser , 43 The Flight in the Desert , William Everson , 44 Lulla , my sweet little baby , William Byrd , 45 To the Infant Martyrs , Richard Crashaw , 46 A Curse on Herod , Amy Witting , 46 Christ's. xii CONTENTS.
... Holy Family , Muriel Rukeyser , 43 The Flight in the Desert , William Everson , 44 Lulla , my sweet little baby , William Byrd , 45 To the Infant Martyrs , Richard Crashaw , 46 A Curse on Herod , Amy Witting , 46 Christ's. xii CONTENTS.
עמוד xiv
... holy Scriptures , Francis Quarles , 95 The Seed growing secretly , Henry Vaughan , 95 The Kingdom of Heaven ... Mustard - seed , Christopher Smart , 97 The Pearl . Matth . 13 , George Herbert , 98 The Daughter of Herodias , Henry ...
... holy Scriptures , Francis Quarles , 95 The Seed growing secretly , Henry Vaughan , 95 The Kingdom of Heaven ... Mustard - seed , Christopher Smart , 97 The Pearl . Matth . 13 , George Herbert , 98 The Daughter of Herodias , Henry ...
עמוד xviii
... Holy Sonnet XIX , John Donne ( ROMANS ) , 269 To Heaven , Ben Jonson ( ROMANS ) , 270 The Flesh and the Spirit , Anne Bradstreet ( ROMANS ) , 271 The Over - Heart , John Greenleaf Whittier ( ROMANS ) , 274 Perdam Sapientiam Sapientum ...
... Holy Sonnet XIX , John Donne ( ROMANS ) , 269 To Heaven , Ben Jonson ( ROMANS ) , 270 The Flesh and the Spirit , Anne Bradstreet ( ROMANS ) , 271 The Over - Heart , John Greenleaf Whittier ( ROMANS ) , 274 Perdam Sapientiam Sapientum ...
עמוד xx
... Holy Sonnet VII , John Donne , 345 The Cross , Allen Tate , 346 The Mental Traveller , William Blake , 347 To St Michael the Archangel , Henry Constable , 350 Sonnet XII , Edmund Spenser , 351 Armageddon , John Crowe Ransom , 352 Sonnet ...
... Holy Sonnet VII , John Donne , 345 The Cross , Allen Tate , 346 The Mental Traveller , William Blake , 347 To St Michael the Archangel , Henry Constable , 350 Sonnet XII , Edmund Spenser , 351 Armageddon , John Crowe Ransom , 352 Sonnet ...
עמוד 4
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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