The Stream & the Sapphire

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Author: Denise Levertov

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780811213547

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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.

The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes

The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes PDF

Author: Denise Levertov

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1997-05-17

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 0811222403

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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.

Poetry and the Religious Imagination

Poetry and the Religious Imagination PDF

Author: Francesca Bugliani Knox

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1317079361

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What is the role of spiritual experience in poetry? What are the marks of a religious imagination? How close can the secular and the religious be brought together? How do poetic imagination and religious beliefs interact? Exploring such questions through the concept of the religious imagination, this book integrates interdisciplinary research in the area of poetry on the one hand, and theology, philosophy and Christian spirituality on the other. Established theologians, philosophers, literary critics and creative writers explain, by way of contemporary and historical examples, the primary role of the religious imagination in the writing as well as in the reading of poetry.

Selected Poems

Selected Poems PDF

Author: Denise Levertov

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2003-09-17

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 081122239X

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Denise Levertov's Selected Poems delivers in a single accessible volume "one of the essential poets of our time" (Poetry Flash). Culled from two dozen poetry books, and drawing from six decades of her writing life, The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov offers a chronological overview of her great body of work. It is splendid and impressive to have at last a clear, unobstructed view of her ground-breaking poetry—the work of a poet who, as Kenneth Rexroth put it, "more than anyone, led the redirection of American poetry...to the mainstream of world literature." Described by Publishers Weekly as "at once as intimate as Creeley and as visionary as Duncan," Levertov was lauded as "one of the indispensable poets of our language, one of those few writers to whom it is necessary to pay attention" by The Malahat Review. No poet is more overdue for a single accessible volume; no career could be better to have within easy reach.

This Great Unknowing

This Great Unknowing PDF

Author: Denise Levertov

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9780811214582

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When Denise Levertov died on December 20, 1997, she left behind forty finished poems, which now form her last collection, This Great Unknowing.

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature PDF

Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Publisher: Infobase Learning

Published: 2015-04-22

Total Pages: 2896

ISBN-13: 1438140649

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Presents articles on feminist literature, including significant authors, themes and history.

Awakening the Creative Spirit

Awakening the Creative Spirit PDF

Author: Christine Valters Paintner

Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2010-02

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0819223719

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The resource is designed to help spiritual directors and others use expressive arts in the context of spiritual direction. It is the latest book in the unique SDI series, designed for professional spiritual directors, but also useful for clergy, therapists, and Christian formation specialists. The Spiritual Directors International Series – This book is part of a special series produced by Morehouse Publishing in cooperation with Spiritual Directors International (SDI), a global network of some 6,000 spiritual directors and members.

"this need to dance / this need to kneel"

Author: Michael P. Murphy

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-09-17

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1532677367

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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.

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century PDF

Author: Eric L. Haralson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-21

Total Pages: 867

ISBN-13: 131776322X

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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.

Christianity and ‘the World’

Christianity and ‘the World’ PDF

Author: David Martin

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0718895789

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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.