This book offers a new way of understanding the old conflict between iconophiles and iconoclasts by exploring the way images in poetry are used by one poet, W. B. Yeats, and his translator, Yves Bonnefoy....
Andrew Frisardi's essays in Ancient Salt are about several modern and contemporary poets--British, American, and Italian. Frisardi offers close readings of these poets, and considers their work in light...
The poems attributed to Omar Khayyam have a universal and timeless philosophical theme: life is a meaningful journey even if brief and uncertain. They inspire an unconstrained free-thinking mindset...
The Soul Is a Stranger in This World is a timely examination of some of the best modern and contemporary poets and a trenchant defense of poetry as a narrative, musical, and theological art. While it...
You don't have to be a skilled poet to see yourself living In a Strange Land. The poets found in this collection, however, not only recognize it, but express their varying experiences in ways that bring...
English-literature scholars have long recognized George Herbert's frequent allusions to the psalms in his early-seventeenth-century poetry, especially in his collection called The Temple. Biblical scholars...
The Emblems of Madame Jeanne Guyon and Otto van Veen, Vol. 1
by Jeanne de la Mothe Guyon
Edited by Nancy Carol James
Foreword by William Bradley Roberts
Illustrated by Otto van Veen
$24.00
£20.00
AU$30.00
ISBN: 9781532662799
Pub Date: April 2019
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pickwick Publications
In this book, visual and poetic emblems of God's love, created by Otto van Veen and Jeanne Guyon, symbolically represent spiritual meaning and, as such, offer a gift of revealed strength and purpose...
Visions of the Afterlife in the Western Poetic Tradition
by Louis Markos
$29.00
£26.00
AU$40.00
ISBN: 9781620327500
Pub Date: May 2013
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
For thousands of years, philosophers, theologians, and poets have tried to pierce through the veil of death to gaze with wonder, fear, and awe on the final and eternal state of the soul. Indeed, the...
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