Part Five : Morning knolwedge -- Ambassadors and votaries of silence. "For the life was manifested" : on "material spirit" in Hopkins -- Eliot's rose-garden : some phenomenology and theology in "Burnt Norton" -- Part Two : On Geoffrey Hill -- God's little mountains : young Geoffrey Hill and the problem of religious poetry -- "it / is true" -- Transcendence in tears -- Uncommon equivocation in Geoffrey Hill -- Part Three : Three Australian poets -- Susannah without the cherub -- Darkness and lostness : how to read a poem by Judith Wright -- "Only this" : some phenomenology and religion in Robert Gray -- Part Four : Religio Poetæ -- A voice answering a voice : Philippe Jaccottet and the "Dream of God" -- Eugenio Montale and "the other truth" -- Lo poseia è scala a dio" : on Charles Wright's "belief beyond belief" -- Part Five : Morning knolwedge -- Contemplation and concretion : four Marian lyrics -- Ambassadors and votaries of silence.
Summary:
Religious poetry has often been regarded as minor poetry and dismissed in large part because poetry is taken to require direct experience; whereas religious poetry is taken to be based on faith, that is, second- or third-hand experience. This book proposes that the best tools for thinking through 'experience' are provided by phenomenology. "Poetry and Revelation" is the first study of religious poetry through a phenomenological lens, one that works with the distinction between manifestation (in which everything is made manifest) and revelation (in which the mystery is re-veiled as well as revealed). Providing a phenomenological investigation of a wide range of 'religious poems', some medieval, some modern; some written in English, others written in European languages; some from America, some from Britain, and some from Australia, Kevin Hart provides a unique new way of thinking about religious poetry and the nature of revelation.
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