This collection of essays explores poetry’s contribution to the expression of theological wonder, which can occur both in ordinary life and in the natural world or can arise in the context of explicitly supernatural mystical experience. Poets have a special role in capturing religious awe in ways beyond the power of discursive language. Some essays in this book approach the subject on a theoretical level, working with theology, philosophy and literary criticism. Others provide close readings of poems in which the engagement with a variously understood idea or experience of wonder is prominent, from the English-language tradition and outside it. Poets from culturally and historically different backgrounds are thus drawn together through the focus on the meaning of wonder.
By close readings of poems and by theoretical analysis involving theology, philosophy and literary criticism, this collection of essays explores poetry’s contribution to the expression of theological wonder, which can occur both in ordinary life and in the natural world, or can arise in the context of explicitly supernatural mystical experience.
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Prolegomena: The Aporias of Wonder |
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1 Mystics, Philosophers and Poets |
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Wonder and Desire in the Dialogue Between Theology and Literature |
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The Hermeneutical Circle: Between Mystery and Wonder in the First Spiritual Experience of Ignatius of Loyola |
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27 | (12) |
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Wonder and Imagination in Ignatius of Loyola: A Study from Paul Ricoeur's Work |
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39 | (10) |
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Wondering/Wandering: Scepticism and the (Peripatetic) Enlightenment |
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49 | (16) |
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Epistemologies of Wonder: David Jones and Catherine Pickstock |
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65 | (10) |
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The Poetic Sources of Anthony Kenny's Agnosticism |
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75 | (12) |
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Epiphanies in the Ordinary: The Wondering of Poets in a Destitute Age |
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87 | (16) |
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Impersonal Beings, or Personal Thresholds of Incarnated Wonder? An Examination of the Beloved Women of Bonnefoy, Dante and Yeats in the Light of Maurice Blanchot's "The Gaze of Orpheus" |
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"La Mystere, la Beaute, et la Mystique de la Nature": The Poetics of Wonder in Henry Bestons The Outermost House |
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117 | (12) |
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The Roots of Eugenio Montale's "Saddened Wonder" |
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129 | (16) |
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3 In Wonderment, Awe and Praise |
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"The wonder of his pittie": Shock and Awe in George Herbert's Temple |
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145 | (12) |
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The Self and the World: The Modernity of Edward Thomas |
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157 | (14) |
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In Wonderment: David Constantine and the Commonplace |
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171 | (14) |
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The Burning Bush: The Wonder-full and Wonder-less in R. S. Thomas' Poetry |
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185 | (12) |
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The Poetic Magnificat of Elizabeth Jennings and Jan Twardowski, a Polish Priest-Poet |
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197 | (12) |
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| Notes on Authors and Editors |
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| Index of Persons |
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Martin Potter specialises in aesthetics and the writings of Evelyn Waugh, Muriel Spark, and David Jones. He is also a poet.
Magorzata Grzegorzewska is a specialist in Renaissance literature and drama and in connections between literature, philosophy and theology.
Jean Wards research interests are literary translation and religious poetry, including Eliot, R.S. Thomas, and Elizabeth Jennings.
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