John Donne: selections from divine poems, sermons..

Donne is one of those people who defies neat classification. Is he a sensualist hypocrite who 'got religion' when debauchery exhausted him and he needed a secure income and so turned to the church.…

Richard Rolle: the English writings

This important volume is a modern English translation of Richard Rolle's English writings. Much of the translation is based on Hope Emily Allen's Middle English edition of 1931. It is supplemented …

The divine poems

The author's religious poetry is the work of a man in whom the general awareness of which Mr. Eliot speaks was certainly present. Equally certainly that awareness is limited in his devotional poetr…

Thomas Merton: monk and poet

Thomas Merton was one of the most important religious poets of this century, with a remarkable range of expression that embraced both the richness of the liturgical life and the stark clarities of …

Angelus Silesius: the cherubinic wanderer

This book provides poetic texts by one of the great German mystics of the 17th century, Angelus Silesius (1624-1677). These texts, written in the form of the epigram, are still used today for conte…

The wandering scholars

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

-

Collation

xxxi,330p.; 20 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

871 WAD w

The dark night of resistance

This extraordinary book, written during the four mounths that the author was resisting arrest and living underground, is an unexpected gift. Rather than being merely an account of a fugitive's life…

George Herbert's Christian narrative

No seventeenth-century poet was more popularly read or imitated than George Herbert, and none represents the lyric implications of the Christian narrative more fully, with the possible exception of…

Oceanic: ocean-inspired poems

The poems in this volume were all, in some way or another, inspired by the coastal lands near the sea. Life by the sea has its own rhythm and rhyme, verved by the winds and tide moving the waters. …

Interpreting Hebrew poetry

This book is most helpful in understanding Hebrew poetry beyond the notion of parallelism. It discusses grammatic and semantic parallelism, which are helpful in getting a deeper understanding of He…