Thick and Dazzling Darkness - Religious Poetry in a Secular Age

Klappentext Peter O'Leary reads a diverse set of writers to argue for the importance of religious poetry in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature. He traces a poetic genealogy that begins with Whitman and Dickinson and continues today to defend the value and meaning of religious poetry against the grain of a secular society. Zusammenfassung Peter O’Leary reads a diverse set of writers to argue for the importance of religious poetry in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature. He traces a poetic genealogy that begins with Whitman and Dickinson and continues today to defend the value and meaning of religious poetry against the grain of a secular society.

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• Authors: Peter O'Leary, Peter O''leary, O'Leary Peter
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780231173308
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17330-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Religion, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets