Elizabeth Jennings And The Sacramental Nature Of Poetry

Author : Anna Walczuk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788323343431
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth Jennings and the Sacramental Nature of Poetry written by Anna Walczuk and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an extensive monographic study of Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001), one of the most remarkable poetic voices in England in the second half of the twentieth century. Briefly linked with the poets of "The Movement" in the 1950s, Jennings soon gained her poetic independence and high esteem on the English literary scene. Primarily a prolific lyricist and religious poet, she also published critical prose bespeaking her fascination with the potential of poetry and its capacity to reach out toward transcendence. The monograph takes into consideration a substantial body of Jennings's poems in the attempt to relate them to the poet's Christian beliefs and her profound spiritual experience. It shows how in Jennings's life and creative output the credo of her faith is interwoven with the ars poetica of her craft. The analysis calls attention to Jennings's emphasis on the intrinsic link between poetry and mysticism and her deep-seated conviction of the unique power of poetic language. The book discusses religious inspiration in Jennings's poems and explores her perception of the words of poetry as inextricably linked with the divine word and viewed in the perspective of the Roman Catholic notion of sacrament. Sacramental awareness is not only seen as a conspicuous property of Elizabeth Jennings's religious profile and an attribute of her thinking, but it is also adopted as the principal and indispensable frame of reference for the analytical and critical discourse presented in the book.

Author : Dana Greene
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019255283X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth Jennings written by Dana Greene and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Jennings was one of the most popular, prolific, and widely anthologized lyric poets in the second half of the twentieth century. This first biography, based on extensive archival research and interviews with Jennings's contemporaries, integrates her life and work and explores the 'inward war' the poet experienced as a result of her gender, religion, and mental fragility. Originally associated with the Movement, Jennings was sui generis, believing poetry was 'communication' and 'communion.' She wrote of nature, friendship, childhood, religion, love, and art, endearing her to a wide audience. Yet lifelong depression, unbearable loneliness, unrelenting fears, poverty, and physical illness plagued her. These were exacerbated by her gender in a male-dominated literary world and an inherited Catholic worldview which initially inculcated guilt and shame. However, a tenacious drive to be a poet made her, 'the most unconditionally loved writer of her generation.' Although her claim was that the poem is not the poet, her life is tracked in her voluminous published and unpublished poetry and prose. The themes of mental illness, the importance of place, the problems associated with being an unmarried woman artist, her relationship with literary mentors and younger poets, her non-feminist feminism, and her marginality and sympathy for the outcast are all explored. It was poetry which saved her; it helped her push back darkness and discover order in the midst of chaos. Poetry was her raison d'etre. It was her life.

Author : David Malcolm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111884324X
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015 written by David Malcolm and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and scholarly review of contemporary British and Irish Poetry With contributions from noted scholars in the field, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a collection of writings from a diverse group of experts. They explore the richness of individual poets, genres, forms, techniques, traditions, concerns, and institutions that comprise these two distinct but interrelated national poetries. Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture series, this book contains a comprehensive survey of the most important contemporary Irish and British poetry. The contributors provide new perspectives and positions on the topic. This important book: Explores the institutions, histories, and receptions of contemporary Irish and British poetry Contains contributions from leading scholars of British and Irish poetry Includes an analysis of the most prominent Irish and British poets Puts contemporary Irish and British poetry in context Written for students and academics of contemporary poetry, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a comprehensive review of contemporary poetry from a wide range of diverse contributors.

Author : David Brown
Publisher : Morehouse Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signs of Grace written by David Brown and published by Morehouse Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thought-provoking anthology of poetry and prose, many of the premier writers of British and American literature offer their thoughts and personal experiences on the seven sacraments, nature, and people. Contibutors include 1995 Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and others.

Author : Elizabeth Jennings
Publisher : Carcanet Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Praises written by Elizabeth Jennings and published by Carcanet Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Praises Elizabeth Jennings celebrates. She brings into vision details of the daily world often overlooked - the pillow, the safety-pin, the bath-tap - as well as the world of passion, grief and love. Concerning History is her most ambitious extended poem to date, a meditation and an experiment in form. It is accompanied by lyric poems, elegies and the reflections of a writer always profoundly curious about the human creature with its spiritual dimensions.

Author : Mary Reichardt
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813217393
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Human and Divine written by Mary Reichardt and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Human and Divine is the first collection of scholarly essays published on a wide variety of contemporary (post 1980) Catholic literary works and artists. Its aim is to introduce readers to recent and emerging writers and texts in the tradition.

Author : Elizabeth Jennings
Publisher : Manchester : Carcanet Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consequently I Rejoice written by Elizabeth Jennings and published by Manchester : Carcanet Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521831792
Total Pages : 1241 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English written by Dominic Head and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 1241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated and fully updated Third Edition of The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English is the most authoritative and international survey of world literature in English available. The Guide covers everything from Old English to contemporary writing from all over the English-speaking world. There are entries on writers from Britain and Ireland, the USA, Canada, India, Africa, South Africa, New Zealand, the South Pacific and Australia, as well as on many important poems, novels, literary journals and plays. This new edition has been brought completely up to date with more than 280 new author entries, most of them for living authors. The general reader will find it fascinating to browse and to discover many new writers and works, while students will find it an invaluable resource for daily use. This is a unique work of reference for the twenty-first century that no reader or library should be without.

Author : Elizabeth Jennings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Poetry written by Elizabeth Jennings and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip A. Ballinger
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042908079
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poem as Sacrament written by Philip A. Ballinger and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a study of the writings and intellectual development of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Dr. Philip Ballinger demonstrates why poetry is, as Hans Urs von Balthasar stated, "the absolutely appropriate theological language". While circling Hopkins' visions of the nature of sensual experience, intuitive cognition, and the function of language, Ballinger focuses upon the sacramental intention of the Victorian Jesuit's poetry. Underlying Hopkins' poetry is a vision of reality as divinely revelatory or 'self-expressive'. For Hopkins, this revelatory character of creation is determined by the incarnation, and beauty, in fact, is a word for 'Christic self-expressiveness'.