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

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

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

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

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Overview

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 the writers considered here offer different answers. But these writers also collectively shed light on the interplay between literature and theology across the long nineteenth century, at a time when the authority and practice of both was being fiercely reimagined.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350111639
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 05/30/2019
Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Michael D. Hurley teaches English Literature at the University of Cambridge, where he is a University Lecturer and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. He is the author of G. K. Chesterton (2012), co-author (with Michael O'Neill) of Poetic Form (2012), editor of the new Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Father Brown Stories, and co-editor (with Marcus Waithe) of Thinking Through Style: Non-Fiction Prose of the Long Nineteenth Century (2017).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Styling Faith
1. William Blake: Destabilized Particulars
2. Alfred Tennyson: Word Music
3. Christina G. Rossetti: Practically Perfect
4. Gerard M. Hopkins: Counter Stress
5. T. S. Eliot: Failing Better
Index

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