Poetry and revelation : for a phenomenology of religious poetry / Kevin Hart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hart, Kevin, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious poetry--History and criticism.

Religious poetry.

Revelation in literature.

Physical Description:

xiii, 329 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

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.

Contents:

Part One : Experience

Poetry and revelation : Hopkins, counter-experience, and reductio

"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.

Notes:

Contains bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hart, Kevin. Poetry and revelation : for a phenomenology of religious poetry.

ISBN:

1472598318

9781472598318

9781472598325

9781472598332

1472598326

1472598334

OCLC:

962007129