Skip to main content alibris logo

Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief

by , ,

Write The First Customer Review
Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief - Hurley, Michael D, and Mason, Emma (Editor), and Knight, Mark (Editor)
Filter Results
Item Condition
Seller Rating
Other Options
Change Currency

In this ambitious book, Michael D. Hurley explores how five great writers - William Blake, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot - engaged their religious faith in poetry, with a view to asking why they chose that literary form in the first place. What did they believe poetry could say or do that other kinds of language or expression could not? And how might poetry itself operate as a unique mode of believing? These deep questions meet at the crossroads of poetics and metaphysics, and ...

loading
Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief 2019, Bloomsbury Academic, New York

ISBN-13: 9781350111639

Trade paperback

Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief 2017, Bloomsbury Academic, New York

ISBN-13: 9781474234078

Hardcover