Divine Inspiration

For centuries, poets have drawn inspiration from the life of Jesus Christ as recorded in the gospels of the New Testament. Now, in a volume of astonishing range and originality, Robert Atwan, George Dardess, and Peggy Rosenthal present 280 remarkable poems from world literature focusing on Jesus's life and teaching. Readers accustomed to the predictable inclusions of many anthologies will be surprised and delighted by the diversity of poets represented here, from Aquinas, Dante, and Donne to D. H. Lawrence, Wole Soyinka, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Jack Kerouac.