Recent critical studies of late modernism have explored the changing sense of both history and artistic possibility that emerged in the years surrounding World War II. However, relatively little attention has been devoted to the impact of poets' theological deliberations on their visions of history and their poetic strategies. Divine Cartographies: God, History, and Poiesis in W. B. Yeats, David Jones, and T. S. Eliot triangulates key texts as attempts to map theologically driven visions of the relation between history and eternity. W. David Soud considers several poems of Yeats's final and most fruitful engagement with Indic traditions, Jones's The Anathemata, and Eliot's Four Quartets. For these three poets, working at the height of their powers, that project was inseparable from reflection on the relation between the individual self and God; it was also bound up with questions of theodicy, subjectivity, and the task of the poet in the midst of historical trauma. Drawing on the fields of Indology, theology, and history of religions as well as literary criticism, Soud explores in depth and detail how, in these texts, theology is poetics.
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A study of how three modernist poets (Yeats, Jones, & Eliot) at the height of their careers drew on their religious beliefs to transform some of their greatest poems into maps of the relationship between history and eternity.
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General Introduction 1: The Divine Self at Play: History and Liberation 2: The Figure and the Map: The Anathemata of David Jones 3: The Silence and the Moment: The Dialectical Poetics of Four Quartets Afterword Bibliography
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Provides a triangulation of key texts: a selection of poems from Yeats's final decade; Jones's The Anathemata; and Eliot's Four Quartets. Explores the theological dimension of these texts by analysing issues of secularization. Considers three spiritual currents that became points of contention in the first half of the century: liberal Protestantism, the mystical revival, and Theosophy.
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W. David Soud is an Instructor in the Department of English at the University of Delaware.
Provides a triangulation of key texts: a selection of poems from Yeats's final decade; Jones's The Anathemata; and Eliot's Four Quartets. Explores the theological dimension of these texts by analysing issues of secularization. Considers three spiritual currents that became points of contention in the first half of the century: liberal Protestantism, the mystical revival, and Theosophy.
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ISBN
9780198777779
Publisert
2016
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Oxford University Press
Høyde
223 mm
Bredde
143 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
258

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Biographical note

W. David Soud is an Instructor in the Department of English at the University of Delaware.