My Bright Abyss

My Bright Abyss PDF Author: Christian Wiman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374216789
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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A passionate meditation on the consolations and disappointments of religion and poetry

My Bright Abyss

My Bright Abyss PDF Author: Christian Wiman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374216789
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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A passionate meditation on the consolations and disappointments of religion and poetry

Five Mystical Songs

Five Mystical Songs PDF Author: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sacred songs (Medium voice) with piano
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Love Bade Me Welcome

Love Bade Me Welcome PDF Author: Joan Smith
Publisher: Belgrave House
ISBN: 1610848837
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Davinia Blythe had lost her young husband suddenly. So she went to his family home, Blythe Wyngate, and was originally welcomed. Until it became known that she was pregnant, with the possible heir if her child was a boy. Then she was pushed off the windmill stairs. Who could have done it but Homer, who had assumed he was the heir and taken charge of Wyngate? Victorian Romantic Suspense by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett Crest

Ambition and Survival

Ambition and Survival PDF Author: Christian Wiman
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619320932
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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An intimate first book of personal essays and incisive commentary from the editor of Poetry.

A Priest to the Temple. Or The Country Parson His Character, and Rule of Holy Life

A Priest to the Temple. Or The Country Parson His Character, and Rule of Holy Life PDF Author: George Herbert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Music at Midnight

Music at Midnight PDF Author: John Drury
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022613458X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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This “powerfully absorbing” biography of 17th century Welsh poet George Herbert brings essential personal and social context to his immortal poetry (Financial Times). Though he never published any of his English poems during his lifetime, George Herbert has been celebrated for centuries as one of the greatest religious poets in the language. In this richly perceptive biography, author and theologian John Drury integrates Herbert’s poems fully into his life, enriching our understanding of both the poet’s mind and his work. As Drury writes in his preface, Herbert lived “a quiet life with a crisis in the middle of it.” Beginning with his early academic success, Drury chronicles the life of a man who abandons the path to a career at court and chooses to devote himself to the restoration of a church in Huntingdonshire and lives out his life as a country parson. Because Herbert’s work was only published posthumously, it has always been difficult to know when or in what context he wrote his poems. But Drury skillfully places readings of the poems into his narrative, allowing us to appreciate not only Herbert’s frame of mind while writing, but also the society that produced it. He reveals the occasions of sorrow, happiness, regret, and hope that Herbert captured in his poetry and that led T. S. Eliot to write, “What we can confidently believe is that every poem . . . is true to the poet’s experience.” “It is hard to imagine a better book for anyone, general reader or seventeenth-century aficionado or teacher or student, newly embarking on Herbert.”—The Guardian, UK

The Poetry of George Herbert

The Poetry of George Herbert PDF Author: A Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674864641
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Bewilderment

Bewilderment PDF Author: David Ferry
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226244881
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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Winner of the 2012 National Book Award for Poetry. To read David Ferry’s Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry’s prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that take your breath away. In poem after poem, his diction modulates beautifully between plainspoken high eloquence and colloquial vigor, making his distinctive speech one of the most interesting and ravishing achievements of the past half century. Ferry has fully realized both the potential for vocal expressiveness in his phrasing and the way his phrasing plays against—and with—his genius for metrical variation. His vocal phrasing thus becomes an amazingly flexible instrument of psychological and spiritual inquiry. Most poets write inside a very narrow range of experience and feeling, whether in free or metered verse. But Ferry’s use of meter tends to enhance the colloquial nature of his writing, while giving him access to an immense variety of feeling. Sometimes that feeling is so powerful it’s like witnessing a volcanologist taking measurements in the midst of an eruption. Ferry’s translations, meanwhile, are amazingly acclimated English poems. Once his voice takes hold of them they are as bred in the bone as all his other work. And the translations in this book are vitally related to the original poems around them. From Bewilderment: October The day was hot, and entirely breathless, so The remarkably quiet remarkably steady leaf fall Seemed as if it had no cause at all. The ticking sound of falling leaves was like The ticking sound of gentle rainfall as They gently fell on leaves already fallen, Or as, when as they passed them in their falling, Now and again it happened that one of them touched One or another leaf as yet not falling, Still clinging to the idea of being summer: As if the leaves that were falling, but not the day, Had read, and understood, the calendar.

Sounding the Seasons

Sounding the Seasons PDF Author: Malcolm Guite
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1848255152
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Poetry has always been a central element of Christian spirituality and is increasingly used in worship, in pastoral services and guided meditation. Here, Cambridge poet, priest and singer-songwriter Malcolm Guite transforms 70 lectionary readings into inspiring poems for use in regular worship, seasonal services, meditative reading or on retreat.

5 Mystical Songs

5 Mystical Songs PDF Author: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher: Petrucci Library Press
ISBN: 9781608741670
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Vaughan Williams' setting of four poems from George Herbert's 1633 collection, "The Temple: Sacred Poems" was done between 1906 and 1911. The premiere was given under the composer's direction on September 14, 1911 at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester. This large-format score, perfect for use for rehearsal pianists and vocal soloists, is a digitally-enhanved reissue of the one first issued by Sainer and Bell of London in 1911. In contrast to so many of the on-demand scores now available, this one comes with all the pages and the images have been thoroughly checked to make sure it is actually readable. As with all PLP scores a percentage of each sale is donated to the amazing online archive of free music scores and recordings, IMSLP - Petrucci Music Library.