Chapters Into Verse: Volume One: Genesis to Malachi - Poetry in English Inspired By the Bible

Zusatztext 'Now that so many readers come to literature entirely ignorant of its Christian heritage! this collection fills an unfortunately necessary gap.'English Studies! Volume 75! Number 6! November 1994 Informationen zum Autor Robert Atwan is founder and series editor of the annual Best American Essays. The editor of numerous anthologies, he has written on the ancient literature of the Near East and his critical essays and poetry reviews have appeared in many national periodicals. Laurance Wieder is the author of several volumes of poetry, including The Coronet of Tours; No Harm Done; The Last Century: Selected Poems; and One Hundred Fifty Psalms, a complete psalter. He has taught Bible and Ancient Authors at Cornell University. Klappentext From John Milton to D. H. Lawrence, poets have found creative inspiration in the Bible. This unique two-volume collection encompasses work of a variety of tones - devotional and meditative, sardonic or political - and includes re-enactments of key episodes, lyrical descants on familiar passages, peronal expressions of faith, and veiled social commentaries. Roughly dividing the material between Old and the New Testaments, each volume presents the original biblical passage along with the poem to provide a fascinating new perspective on familiar works of literature. Innovative and comprehensive, Chapters into Verse includes work by Donne, Blake, Keats, Byron, Hopkins, Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Hardy, Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, and many many more. Zusammenfassung From John Milton to D. H. Lawrence, poets have found creative inspiration in the Bible. This unique two-volume collection encompasses work of a variety of tones, from devotional and meditative, to sardonic or political.

Product details

• Authors: Robert (Professor of English Atwan, Robert Wieder Atwan
• Assisted by: Robert Atwan (Editor), Atwan Robert (Editor), Laurance Wieder (Editor), Wieder Laurance (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.1993
• EAN: 9780195069136
• ISBN: 978-0-19-506913-6
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: Chapters Into Verse, Vols. 1 &; Chapters Into Verse, Vols. 1 &; Chapters into Verse
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, English, Poetry, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, Poetry / Poems