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

by Michael D. Hurley

Book Overview

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?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350111635
• ISBN13: 9781350111639
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"