An enjoyment of the poet's art, as seen in the words of T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens. ""As a Protestant theologian,"" writes McGill in his preface, ""I have always been puzzled that within the Christian community, poetry is often used for its insight into our modern miseries, but that it is rarely enjoyed as poetry. This book seeks to redress the balance."" McGill focuses on three American poets--Eliot, Frost and Stevens--all of whom belong to the same poetic generation and thus provide a microcosm of ...
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An enjoyment of the poet's art, as seen in the words of T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens. ""As a Protestant theologian,"" writes McGill in his preface, ""I have always been puzzled that within the Christian community, poetry is often used for its insight into our modern miseries, but that it is rarely enjoyed as poetry. This book seeks to redress the balance."" McGill focuses on three American poets--Eliot, Frost and Stevens--all of whom belong to the same poetic generation and thus provide a microcosm of poetry from this era. Influenced by Owen Barfield, John Crowe Ransom, and Cleanth Brooks, he identifies poetry with the fleshly aspect of experience, yet never as distinct from a spiritual aspect. ""In the kingdom of God, people are created with flesh, reconciled through flesh, and glorified as flesh. To hide from the flesh for the sake of the spirit is to miss the Christian life. It is this danger which gives special meaning to the enjoyment of poetry."" This experience of poetry, according to McGill, ""is always a healthy antidote to spiritual pride.""
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New. Christians turn to great poets not for any narrowly 'religious' perspective, but for the 'language of rhythm and metaphor...[which] celebrates the perceptual life of the flesh' affirmed by the testimony of Christ's life and death. These vivid essays by one of America's finest theologians focus on three poets--T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens--who voiced in unique ways the concrete experience of twentieth-century life. In The Wasteland, Eliot eschews the 'poetry of exaltation' popular in the nineteenth century, limiting himself to 'the music of actual city speech...[with] its sense of the inevitability of suffering. ' Frost, whose 'country speech' is often mistaken for quaint pastoralism, 'stands still and waits for things to disclose themselves' with a restraint that does not intrude upon the object or situation of his poem. An exploration of Wallace's strange, 'artificial' verse reveals a world permeated by 'the fullness discovered in the engulfing moment. ' The more we are tempted to escape into an abstract Christianity of theory and doctrine, the more we need poetry to reveal 'this concrete world [as] the region of His grace and victory. '
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