Christianity and Literature articles from March 2006

Christianity and Literature archives from March 2006

Georges Bernanos: the vocation of the Christian writer.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... In The Diary of a Country Priest (Le Journal d'un cure de campagne), the best-known of Georges Bernanos's novels, the Cure of Torcy, an older priest, serves as mentor or guide to the Cure of Ambricout, a young priest in charge of a parish for...

The Rowers, at Rockland Lake.(Poem)
March 22, 2006... The Rowers, at Rockland Lake "so that my hope is safely brought to shore"--Petrarch On spires of loosestrife, butterflies hang cathedral-winged. A jangle of geese traces a wavering V across an apricot sky, their cries...

"I am more fit to die than people think": Byron on immortality.(Lord George Gordon Byron)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... "What is Poetry?--The Feeling of a Former world and a Future." Byron, Ravenna Journal Elizabeth Longford affirms a commonly accepted view that Byron "mocked the idea of Christian immortality" by citing one of his best-known letters on...

Pillar of Salt.(Poem)
March 22, 2006... Pillar of Salt It's not rain but fire in the clouds builds up to a hard quick anger until the edges of my eyes burst and flames peel back layers of blue to red the sky...

"The tide's pendulum truth": a reading of the poetry of theological crisis from Matthew Arnold to R. S. Thomas.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... I The decisive event which underlies the search for meaning and the despair of it in the 20th century is the loss of God in the 19th century. Paul Tillich J. Hillis Miller has argued that Matthew Arnold's thought provides us with...

Oak Leaf.(Poem)
March 22, 2006... Oak Leaf A poor outline of parched lips. A blunt spearhead, blood-rusty and brittle with age, long past its ripeness to pierce someone's side. The slender fragment of an old map printed with the topography of a...

Poetry and faith: the example of Elizabeth Jennings.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001) is a pre-eminent example of a writer whose Christian faith and denominational allegiance to Catholicism are repeatedly explored in her poetry over almost fifty years. (1) Although she was reluctant to discuss her...

Cold Mountain as spiritual quest: Inman's redemptive journey.(Charles Frazier)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006... Charles Frazier's epigraph to Cold Mountain--"Men ask the way to Cold Mountain. / Cold Mountain: there's no through trail"--may be a metaphor for critics who are lost in the interpretive thicket trying to find the genre of the story. Attempts...

Natan Birenbaum Street in Jerusalem.(Poem)
March 22, 2006... Natan Birenbaum Street in Jerusalem An eagle spreads its wings above the valley where each house is a white validation. If I stay I'll begin to abstract the best from every object: majesty from the eagle, ...

Reading Milton under modernist lights.(Rethinking Milton Studies: Time Present and Time Past)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Rethinking Milton Studies: Time Present and Time Past. By John T. Shawcross. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005. ISBN 0-87413-898-1. Pp. 241. $47.50. How Milton Works. By Stanley Fish. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of...

The persistence of vision: Northrop Frye in the context of religion.(Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architect of the Spiritual World)(Frye and the Word: Religious Contexts in the Writings of Northrop Frye)(Northrop Frye's Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts, Collected Works of Northrop Frye)(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architect of the Spiritual World. By Robert D. Denham. Charlottesville and London: University oi Virginia Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8139-2299-2. Pp. xiv + 373. Frye and the Word: Religious Contexts in the...

Gift.(Poem)
March 22, 2006... Gift Suppose grace does fall like snow--no, hot like the snow sweeping across your bare yard today, sliding from branch to stem, grazing the single dead oak leaf that must fall but won't, the snow adhering to...