Before the door of God : an anthology of devotional poetry

Before the door of God : an anthology of devotional poetry / edited by Jay Hopler & Kimberly Johnson.

Before the Door of God traces the development of devotional English-language poetry from its origins in ancient hymnody to its current twenty-first-century incarnations. The poems in this volume demonstrate not only that devotional poetry--poetry that speaks to the divine--remains in vigorous practi...

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Other Authors: Hopler, Jay, 1970-2022 (Editor), Johnson, Kimberly, 1971- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Hebrew
Ancient Greek
Latin
Old English
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Devotional poetry.
Religious poetry.
POETRY > Subjects & Themes > Inspirational & Religious.
Devotional poetry
Religious poetry
Poetry
Poésie religieuse.
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Table of Contents:
  • The ancient origins of the devotional lyric
  • Early Christian lyrics through the fifteenth century
  • Psalm translations of the English Renaissance: the Bible as art
  • The flourishing of the devotional lyric in the post-Reformation era
  • The poetic sublime: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
  • The devotional lyric in the modern era
  • The twentieth-century devotional lyric after modernism
  • The twenty-first-century devotional lyric.

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