The Christ Sonnets (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781502723574)

This sonnet sequence illustrates a new poet's disassociation of his sensibility, from his immortal predecessors in Dante, Shakespeare, Milton and Joyce, and illustrates a theory of poetry, that Harold Bloom once termed the 'anxiety of influence'. Individual sonnets, within a body of one hundred and fifty, praise, for example, John Milton's 'poly-mouthed language proficiency', but also, tease James Joyce, as the 'nicens little boy of baby tuckoo'.The poet transcends his past idols, even informing Florence's Dante, that he sees 'his new Life, his Comedy' in 'The Christ Sonnets' and 'The Christ Colloquy'. Personal and autobiographical, but also featuring meditations composed on themes such as the baptism and the resurrection, the collection concludes, with the formed poetic identity of Andrew 'of the wood', fully prepared to sing new poetry for the Cross of Christ.

Author: Andrew Joseph Grattan
ISBN-10: 1502723573
ISBN-13: 9781502723574
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2026
Pages: 174
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d