Scripture and the English Poetic Imagination
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About the Book

The God of the Bible often speaks in poetry. Beginning with an illuminating exploration of eloquence in the divine voice, a highly acclaimed professor of literature opens up the treasury of biblical tradition among English poets both past and present, showing them to be well attuned not only to Scripture's meaning but also to its music. In exploring the work of various poets, David Lyle Jeffrey demonstrates how the poetry of the Bible affords a register of understanding in which the beauty of Holy Scripture deepens meditation on its truth and is indeed a vital part of that truth.

Table of Contents:
Contents Introduction 1. Poetry and the Voice of God Part 1: Medieval Poetry and the Bible 2. Paraphrase and Theater: Bonaventure's Retracing the Arts to Theology and Literary Evangelism 3. Quotation and Inflection: Dante and Chaucer on the Sermon on the Mount 4. Egyptian Gold: Biblical Transformations of Ovid in The Canterbury Tales 5. Irony and Misreading: Courtly Love and Marriage according to Henry VIII Part 2: Scripture and the English Poetic Imagination after the Reformation 6. Poetry in Preaching, Prayer, and Pastoral Care: John Donne and George Herbert 7. Habitual Music: The Influence on English Poets of the King James Bible 8. Conclusion and Form for the Personal in Modern Poetry 9. The Conversion Poems of Margaret Avison 10. Meditation and Gratitude: The Enduringly Beautiful Changes of Richard Wilbur 11. Epiphanies of a Father's Love: Anthony Hecht and Gjertrud Schnackenberg Appendix: Can Faustus Be Saved? The Fragile Future of Our Common Book Index

About the Author :
David Lyle Jeffrey (PhD, Princeton University) is Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and professor emeritus at the University of Ottawa. He has written numerous books, including A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature, People of the Book, In the Beauty of Holiness, and a commentary on the Gospel of Luke.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801099632
  • Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group
  • Height: 227 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Width: 162 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0801099633
  • Publisher Date: 16 Apr 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 330 gr


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