Chapters into Verse: A Selection of Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible from Genesis through Revelation

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Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder
Oxford University Press, 28‏/09‏/2000 - 512 من الصفحات
Drawing a unique map of the history of English poetry, Chapters Into Verse surveys and defines the literary legacy of the Scriptures from the fourteenth century to the present. Arranged in scriptural order from Genesis to Revelation, the book presents each poem alongside the biblical passage that inspired it. Thus readers can conveniently witness the various ways sacred text has sparked the imagination of poets throughout the ages. The editors have included poems by virtually all the prominent religious poets--among them John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Edward Taylor, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Included, too, are devotional and visionary works from a wide range of vintage poets--Robert Burns, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Tennyson, and Robert Browning. Proving that the Bible is just as powerful a source of inspiration today as it was in the past, the collection also assembles a mixed congregation of modern and contemporary poets, such as Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Countee Cullen, e.e. cummings, William Butler Yeats, Laura (Riding) Jackson, A.D. Hope, Denise Levertov, and Philip Levine. Of enduring interest to readers of both scripture and literature, this anthology illuminates key passages of the Old and New Testament. In selection after selection, readers will encounter an astonishing variety of religious experiences, as a host of poets from many eras and many backgrounds respond to Holy Scripture profoundly and imaginatively.

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Genesis through Malachi
1
There is No Land Yet LAURA RIDING JACKSON
7
When Adam Walked in Eden Young A E HOUSMAN
14
The Fall JOHN WILMOT EARL OF ROCHESTER
20
The Cloud DEREK WALCOTT
27
Ancient History SIEGFRIED SASSOON
33
The Woman and the Angel ROBERT SERVICE
35
The Tower of Babel LAURANCE WIEDER
41
Gospels through Revelation
237
A Christmas Hymn RICHARD WILBUR
243
Annunciation JOHN DONNE
249
Nativity JOHN DONNE
255
To his Savior The New Years Gift ROBERT HERRICK
261
The Flight in the Desert WILLIAM EVERSON
269
To the Infant Martyrs RICHARD CRASHAW
271
Midnight HENRY VAUGHAN
277

On the two Great Floods FRANCIS QUARLES
47
The Jacobs Ladder DENISE LEVERTOV
54
Asenath DIANA HUME GEORGE
60
Pharaos Daughter MICHAEL MORANZOZIMUS
66
The Law Given at Sinai ISAAC WATTS
74
The Latest Decalogue ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH
80
LEVITICUS
81
DEUTERONOMY
87
JOSHUA ༢༡
95
JUDGES 3
101
took my Power in my Hand EMILY DICKINSON
108
from Penitential Psalms SIR THOMAS WYATT
114
The Rabbis Song RUDYARD KIPLING
118
The Harp the Monarch Minstrel Swept GEORGE NOEL GORDON
124
those feet WILLIAM BLAKE
130
NEHEMIAH ༢༡
137
Job ELIZABETH SEWELL
143
Hath the Rain a Father? JONES VERY
149
RICHARD CRASHAW
152
Meditation Seven EDWARD TAYLOR
158
Introduction to with Gascoignes De profundis
165
In Tenebris THOMAS HARDY
171
On Woman WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
180
Race and Battle D H LAWRENCE
186
My dove my beautiful one JAMES JOYCE
193
ISAIAH ༣༡
195
WILLIAM COWPER
201
CARL RAKOSI
207
Aholibah ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
213
DANIEL ༢༡
219
In a Blind Garden DAVID SHAPIRO JONAH
225
from Jubilate Agno CHRISTOPHER SMART ZECHARIAH
231
The Lamb WILLIAM BLAKE
283
But Men Loved Darkness Rather than Light RICHARD CRASHAW
289
The Passionate Mans Pilgrimage SIR WALTER RALEIGH
295
Judge Not THEODORE ROETHKE
301
For the Magdalene WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN
307
Business Reverses EDGAR LEE MASTERS
313
E Tenebris OSCAR WILDE
319
of A Shropshire Lad A E HOUSMAN
326
To Dives HILAIRE BELLOC
332
Two Went Up into the Temple to Pray RICHARD CRASHAW
344
The Place of the Damned JONATHAN SWIFT
350
The Tribunal CHRIS WALLACECRABBE
356
A Ballad of Trees and the Master SIDNEY LANIER
363
The Hound of Heaven FRANCIS THOMPSON
369
On the Cards and Dice SIR WALTER RALEIGH
372
Good Friday 1613 Riding Westward JOHN DONNE
380
Easter Hymn A D HOPE
386
Appearances
393
The Ballad of Joking Jesus JAMES JOYCE ACTS
399
The Search HENRY VAUGHAN ACTS
405
Meditation Three second series EDWARD TAYLOR ROMANS
411
Revelation ROBERT FROST FIRST CORINTHIANS
417
Pilate Remembers WILLIAM E BROOKS FIRST TIMOTHY
424
A Dream SIR JOHN SUCKLING SECOND PETER
430
Holy Sonnet VII JOHN DONNE
436
EDMUND SPENSER
444
The Resurrection ABRAHAM COWLEY
450
A Commination A D HOPE
456
371
463
Index of First Lines
469
Index of Poets
477
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الصفحة 258 - And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
الصفحة 168 - Whither shall I go from thy Spirit ? or whither shall I flee from thy presence ? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there : if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me ; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee ; but the night shineth as the day : the darkness...
الصفحة 403 - And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house ; and putting his hands on him, said, Brother Saul, the Lord, (even Jesus that appeared unto thee in the way as thou earnest,) hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the holy Ghost.
الصفحة 204 - THUS saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: Where is the house that ye build unto me? And where is the place of my rest ? For all those things hath mine hand made...
الصفحة 17 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
الصفحة 73 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
الصفحة 16 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them : and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
الصفحة 445 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
الصفحة 125 - And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
الصفحة 9 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

نبذة عن المؤلف (2000)

Robert Atwan is founder and series editor of The Best American Essays and co-editor of Divine Inspiration (OUP 1998) Laurance Wieder is a poet and the editor of The Poets' Book of Psalms (OUP 1999).

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