A Music of Grace: The Sacred in Contemporary American PoetryP. Lang, 1995 - 135 sider In our mid-to-late twentieth century secular society, a most pressing theological question is, Where does the dimension of the sacred reside? The question is posed here through the poetic worlds of James Wright, Anne Sexton, and Galway Kinnell, each a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In the midst of collapsing values, these poets express a longing for a lost world of meaning. The author shows how each attempts to re-vision and re-language the sacred without resort to traditional piety. Lawrence's process poetics and Whitehead's process theology shed light on the question of the sacred and the poetic response. |
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... nature , and I think he was suggesting something about poetry . That , perhaps , poetry could remind us of the need for restoration through the inner nature . Also , I think that in the poetry of nature there is the willingness to ...
... nature , and I think he was suggesting something about poetry . That , perhaps , poetry could remind us of the need for restoration through the inner nature . Also , I think that in the poetry of nature there is the willingness to ...
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... nature suggests a similar restorative power within the inner nature of the human creature . Furthermore , part of the power of poetry is to remind us of the restorative power both in nature and in our own inner natures ; poetry too ...
... nature suggests a similar restorative power within the inner nature of the human creature . Furthermore , part of the power of poetry is to remind us of the restorative power both in nature and in our own inner natures ; poetry too ...
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... nature replete with images elicited by the images of outer nature . Dwelling in both natures is a restorative power , a healing grace . Inner nature can be accessed by outer nature , as it is in Wright's poem , " Two Hangovers . " On ...
... nature replete with images elicited by the images of outer nature . Dwelling in both natures is a restorative power , a healing grace . Inner nature can be accessed by outer nature , as it is in Wright's poem , " Two Hangovers . " On ...
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