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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Religious poetry."”.
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Religious Poetry and the Red Dot
<p>The religious poet, generally revered as inspired transcriber of holy intervention - perhaps as often de facto creative architect of a particular social blueprint - carries an odd weight in the literary world. Here, a historical timeline of somewhat skewed consequences is not intended to infer …
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The Religious Poetry of Christina Rossetti
… entirety make up “The largest body of English religious verse since George Herbert.”</p> <p>The study has for its purpose an examination of the themes, sources, and images in Christina Rossetti’s religious poetry in order to show the relationship existing between them. Aside from the poems …
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Waiting: the religious poetry of Ronald Stuart Thomas
Contains fulltext : mmubn000001_169883140.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Robert Southwell Exponent of Religious Poetry in the Elizabethan Age
… lovable crusader for better norms in the art of poetry In the troubled times of the Elizabethan Age, Among literary historians Robert Southwell is invariably considered a minor Catholic poet whose spiritual beliefs led him eventually to forfeit his life as a traitor to the Crown. |In the …
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"The Grand Perhaps" - The Concept of Doubt in Browning's Religious Poetry
<p>The themes that men choose to write or sing about, portray in stone or in paint, say something about the times in which they live. I chose the theme of doubt for this paper because doubt and its correlative, faith, is very prevalent in this time of the twentieth century. The twentieth century, …
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Motiejaus Kazimiero Sarbievijaus religinė poezija /
… object of this dissertation is the Latin religious poetry of Mathias Casimirus Sarbievius (1595–1640). The research material covers Sarbievius’s religious odes, epodes, and epigrams. This dissertation aims to thouroughly examine the aspects of Sarbievius’s religious texts that have been …
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Verb syntax and the creation of a new verbal environment: Mechanisms of change from Latin to early and modern Romance
… Romance texts, including examples of epic poetry, religious poetry, and religious prose, I show these languages possessed numerous and redundant means of making such distinctions (including alternate casing schemes, agreements, and discourse strategies) and such ambiguity virtually never …
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Drawn Out In Love: Religious Experience, The Public Sphere, And Evangelical Lay Women's Writing In Eighteenth Century England
<p>"Drawn Out in Love: Religious Experience, the Public Sphere, and Evangelical Lay Women's Writing in Eighteenth Century England" explores the writing of eighteenth century evangelical lay women in print, poetry, and educational material. Through careful attention to both the content and …
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Soul and Body: Reading the Anglo -Saxon Self Through the Vercelli Book
… Book, a tenth-century compilation of Old English religious poetry and prose. The Vercelli Book's selection and arrangement of texts has long perplexed scholars, but close examination of the manuscript reveals that its organizational logic lies in the relationship of its individual pieces to the …
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Divine and supernatural power in Old English and Old Saxon literature.
… writings on power dynamics in Old English religious poetry. While these works are an important foundation for understanding these cultures' perception of divine and diabolical might, each study is limited to only one Germanic literary tradition, and no scholarship explores why these …
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Liszt as Prophet: Religion, Politics, and Artists in 1830s Paris
… in a dynamic society in which new political, religious, and artistic movements could form and interact. Republican values continued to seek a foothold in the oppressive climates of the Restoration and July monarchies. Similarly, the Church--reinstated by Napoleon but still greatly diminished …
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Apocalyptic care : the renewal of creation in Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
… Victorian poets. In my dissertation, I study the religious poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Gerard Manley Hopkins and challenge those prevailing assumptions through taking the poets' religious commitments seriously as sources of hope and aesthetic formation. …
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Death, writing, and remembrance in Anglo-Saxon England
… several genres, including Old English heroic and religious poetry, Anglo-Latin prose, and commemorative texts and inscriptions. Each chapter explores a manifestation of the power of writing to embody the dead in the community of the living. Chapter 1 examines Anglo-Saxon funerary inscriptions and …
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Faith and Scriptural History in Early Modern Religious Writing
… faith and scriptural history in early modern religious writing. While a renewed attention to the historicity of scriptural narratives in this period brought about a more evidence-based assent to the truth of biblical accounts, these developments also led religious writers to emphasise the role …
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The Poetics of “Standing in Relation” William James in Conversation with Transcendent Poets Expressing Relation with the Divine
This dissertation undertakes the study of religious experience in religious poetry utilizing the ideas of the twentieth century American psychologist and philosopher William James. James’s ideas that the religious impulse is personal, relational, and experiential with its source in the inner life …
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Sacred A Cappella Composition in France from Pius X to Vatican II
… but paraliturgical texts from the Bible and religious poetry as well.)</p> <p>Although this repertory is modest in volume—containing fewer than three dozen motets and masses—it proves comparatively high in quality and individuality within the total body of <em>a cappella</em> church music …
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‘And eall worulde gesceaft’: Re-Reading the Natural World in Old English Biblical Poetry
… that the hybrid nature of Old English biblical poetry is evident in its complex representation of the natural world — which is shaped by a mesh of traditions including biblical source material, Old English poetics and Latin biblical epic. Throughout this thesis the main insights come from …
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TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF TRACTARIAN HYMNODY: A Critical Appraisal of the Interaction between Theology, Poetry and Music in Anglican Hymnody between 1840 and 1900.
… with Romanticism, excited a major movement in religious poetry, much in evidence in Keble’s compendium The Christian Year but also in a generation of Tractarian poets such as Caswall, Faber, Lyte, Elliott, Chandler, Thring, Neale, Ellerton, Chatterton Dix, Plumptre and Baker, and in the …
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Playing Jonah's Hand: Poems
… both of which examine intersections between poetry and Christian theology. In the first essay I identify the imaginative faculty as the primary source of agency for the speaker in John Donne's "Holy Sonnets." Working upon Barbara Lewalski's assertion that these sonnets represent "the …
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