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008			181207s2019 miu b 001 0 eng c
010			_a 2018036382
020			_a9780801099625 _q(cloth : _qalk. paper)
040			_aLBSOR/DLC _beng _erda _cLBSOR _dDLC
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050	0	0	_aPN56.B5 J44 2019 _b14280
082	0	0	_a821.009/3822 _223
100	1		_aJeffrey, David Lyle, _d1941- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aScripture and the English poetic imagination / _cDavid Lyle Jeffrey.
263			_a1901
264		1	_aGrand Rapids, MI : _bBaker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, _c[2019]
300			_apages cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPoetry and the voice of God -- Paraphrase and theater: Bonaventure's retracing the arts to theology and literary evangelism -- Quotation and inflection: Dante and Chaucer on The sermon on the mount -- Egyptian gold: biblical transformations of Ovid in The Canterbury tales -- Irony and misreading: courtly love and marriage according to henry viii -- Poetry in preaching, prayer, and pastoral care: John Donne and George Herbert -- Habitual music: the influence on poets of the King James Bible -- Conclusion and form for the person in modern poetry -- The conversion poems of Margaret Avison -- Meditation and gratitude: the enduringly beautiful changes of Richard Wilbur -- Epiphanies of a father's love: Anthony Hecht and Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Appendix: can Faustus be saved? the fragile future of our common book.
520			_a"A highly acclaimed professor of literature opens up the treasury of biblical tradition among the English poets, both past and present, showing them to be fine interpreters of Scripture who are well attuned to its music"-- _cProvided by publisher.
630	0	0	_aBible _xIn literature.
650		0	_aReligious poetry _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aBible and literature.
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