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Interdisciplinary and ecumenical in scope, Poetry and Prayer offers theoretical discussion on the profound connection between poetic inspiration and prayer as well as reflection on the work of individual writers and the traditions within which they stand. An international range of established and new scholars in literary studies and theology offer unique contributions to the neglected study of poetry in relation to prayer. Part I addresses the relationship of prayer and poetry. Parts II and III consider these and related ideas from the point of view of their implementation in a range of different authors and traditions, offering case studies from, for example, the Bible, Dante, Shakespeare and Herbert, as well as twentieth-century poets such as Thomas Merton, Denise Levertov, W.H. Auden and R.S. Thomas.
Contents
Preface; Introduction, Francesca Bugliani Knox. Part I Theoretical Perspectives: Poetry and prayer: a survey of some 20th-century studies, David Lonsdale; 'Prayer is the little implement': poetic speech and the gestures of prayer in Christian traditions, Mark S. Burrows; Poetry at the threshold of prayer, Antonio Spadaro SJ; Poetry as immanence: how language informs reality, Jay Parini; Poetry and prayer: 'an inner kinship', Jennifer Reek. Part II Case Studies: Pre-Modernity: Poetic art and prayer in Psalm 145, David Rensberger; Prayer and prayerfulness in Dante, John Took; Prayer, poetry and silence: a musical correspondence, Małgorzata Grzegorzewska. Part III Case Studies: The Twentieth Century: Re-imagining prayer: coming out of hiding? R.S. Thomas and Tadeusz Różewicz, Jean Ward; Saturday prayer: R.S. Thomas and the search for a silent God, Richard McLauchlan; Thomas Merton's poetry and prayer, Sarah Law; W.H. Auden and the deep language of poetic prayer, Hester Jones; Denise Levertov: poetry as a way to prayer, Dana Greene.
