Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief by Hurley, Michael D.

Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781474234078)

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Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief by Hurley, Michael D.

Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief

$130.00
Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief by Hurley, Michael D.

Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief

$130.00
Format: Hardcover
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In this ambitious book, Michael D. Hurley explores how five great writers - William Blake, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot - engaged their religious faith in poetry, with a view to asking why they chose that literary form in the first place. What did they believe poetry could say or do that other kinds of language or expression could not? And how might poetry itself operate as a unique mode of believing? These deep questions meet at the crossroads of poetics and metaphysics, and the writers considered here offer different answers. But these writers also collectively shed light on the interplay between literature and theology across the long nineteenth century, at a time when the authority and practice of both was being fiercely reimagined.

Author: Michael D. Hurley
ISBN-10: 1474234070
ISBN-13: 9781474234078
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 11/16/2017
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
By Michael D. Hurley
By Michael D. Hurley
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Michael D. Hurley teaches English Literature at the University of Cambridge, where he is a University Lecturer and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. He is the author of G. K. Chesterton (2012), co-author (with Michael O'Neill) of Poetic Form (2012), editor of the new Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Father Brown Stories, and co-editor (with Marcus Waithe) of Thinking Through Style: Non-Fiction Prose of the Long Nineteenth Century (2017).

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