Between the temple and the cave : the religious dimensions of the poetry of E.J. Pratt / Angela T. McAuliffe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McAuliffe, Angela T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pratt, E. J. (Edwin John), 1882-1964--Religion.

Pratt, E. J.

Religious poetry, Canadian--History and criticism.

Religious poetry, Canadian.

Theology in literature.

God in literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 250 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on a wide variety of newly available source material, Angela McAuliffe examines the roots of Pratt's religious attitudes, including his strict Methodist upbringing in Newfoundland and his plans to enter the ministry. She explores Pratt's early prose and unpublished poetry, including his theses on demonology and Pauline eschatology and the unpublished poem "Clay," to trace the origins of religious ideas and motifs that occur in his later work. McAuliffe focuses on key motifs in Pratt's poetry, such as his image of a distant and formidable God, his apocalyptic vision of the world, and his belief in determinism and fate. She concludes that the diversity of religious positions attributed to Pratt and the image of God that emerges from his poetry are facets of the ironic vision of a man of twentieth-century sensibility who wrestled with God and sought a medium of expression equal to his themes.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

"Up from Newfoundland": The Preacher in Search of the Poet

"The Good Lord" with "a Glittering Monocle": The Problem of God

"Ghosts of the Apocalypse"

"A Tendency to ... Fatalism Tempered with Humanity"

The Wheel Comes Full Circle: The Atoning Christ

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-244) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85867-X

9786612858673

0-7735-6848-4

OCLC:

181843410