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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"devotional poetry"”.
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Facing God: Contemporary American Devotional Poetry
… between scripture and contemporary American poetry. Scripture is inherently poetic, employing devices that require analysis and explication. Poets drawing from scriptural text for narrative, language, or form are not looking to replace scripture, or even enhance it. Poets create new …
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A Poetics of the Soul: Devotional Poetry in Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and Christina Rossetti
This study explores devotional poetry of the nineteenth century as a poetic discourse in which tropes of the human soul connect spiritual reflection with lived experience in order to engage literary, religious, and social issues in Victorian England. Like G. B. Tennyson's Victorian Devotional …
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Table of the Sun
… experienced at UNLV, including the Spring 2015 Devotional Poetry class taught by Drs. Harp and Revell, and Professor Keelan’s Fall 2015 Political Poetry workshop. Other influences include Bhanu Kapil, Anne Carson, Rebecca Solnit, and H.D.. I was also very much influenced by place: the Mojave …
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Affect before Spinoza: Reformed Faith, Affectus, and Experience in Jean Calvin, John Donne, John Milton and Baruch Spinoza
… emergent affective approaches to faith, </p><p>devotional poetry and philosophy in early modernity. For early modern believers across </p><p>confessions, faith was neither reducible to a dry intellectual concern nor to a personal, </p><p>emotional appeal to God. Instead, faith was a …
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Reading And Writing A Garden, Materials Of A Garden Made In Germantown, Pennsylvania (1683–1719)
… reading of his own plant prints, botanical and devotional poetry, literal descriptions, and didactic writing about plants and horticulture. This writing is found in several of his notebooks that survive at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, The German Society of Pennsylvania, and the Kislak …
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Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) : his relationship to Carl Heinrich Graun and the Berlin circle
… growth of literary confidence, in particular in devotional poetry, music received considerable creative impetus. The figure who most closely followed these linguistic and literary developments is Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767).The object of this thesis is to place in its proper context the …
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A New Public Theology: Sanskrit and Society in Seventeenth-century South India
… doctrine, polemic, ritual procedures, and devotional poetry--that this dissertation grounds its inquiry. My analysis centers on the textual contributions of Nilakantha Diksita--minister, poet laureate, and public theologian of Nayaka-period Madurai, and those connected with him by virtue of …
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God in the Darkness: Mysticism and Paradox in the Poetry of George Herbert and Henry Vaughan.
<p>While aspects of mysticism appear in the poetry of both George Herbert and Henry Vaughan, the general consensus among critics has acknowledged the mysticism of Vaughan while ignoring its roots in Herbert's writings. Among the leading authorities on the poetry of Herbert, there has been a general …