Poetry & Religion

Ineke Bockting, specialist of the American South and William Faulkner, is Professor of English at the Catholic University of Paris. Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec is Associate Professor of English at the University of Caen and teaches literature at the Catholic University of Paris. Cathy Parc, who has published on contemporary poetry and translation, teaches at the Catholic University of Paris.

• Contents: Şebnem Kaya: Natural Theology in the Works of Middle English Mystics and Mevlana Jalalu’ddin Rumi – Cassandra Gorman: Thomas Traherne’s Intuitive Knowledge of ‘ALL THINGS’ in the Commentaries of Heaven – Jean-Christophe van Thienen: Virtuous Wordplay in George Herbert’s Anglican Manifesto – Gary Kuchar: Sounding The Temple: George Herbert and the Mystery of Hearkening – Guillaume Coatalen: Sucking ‘the sincere milk of the word’ (1Peter 2:2) in Herbert’s Temple (1633) – Catherine Fleming: Eighteenth Century German and Pope’s ‘Essay on Man’ – Stephen Tardif: Getting Back to (Human) Nature: Personality as Sacrament in G.M. Hopkins – Paola Partenza: ‘It is man’s privilege to doubt’: Alfred Tennyson and the Poetry of Doubt – John Fawell: Hardy: the Churchiest Skeptic – Mélody Enjoubault: ‘Tune me, O Lord, into one harmony’: Christina Rossetti and the Poetics of Eternity – Christopher Stokes: Prayer, Rite and Lack in Keats’s ‘Ode to Psyche’ and ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’ – Jane Avner: Annunciations – Anne Mounic: Songs of Singularity: The Two Ways of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Graves – Murielle Cayouette: Spirituality and Disaffiliation in T.S. Eliot’s ‘Gerontion’ and Wallace Stevens’s ‘Sunday Morning’ – Monique Lojkine-Morelec: ‘When Birds in Glory Come’: Religion into Poetry in Hopkins’ ‘The Windhover’, Yeats’ ‘Leda and the Swan’ and Eliot’s ‘Little Gidding IV’ – Monica Manolachi: Faith, Doubt and Blasphemy in Contemporary Caribbean British Poetry – Cathy Parc: ‘Tongue(s) of Fire’: Echoes of the Sacred in Elizabeth Jennings’s Poetry – Ineke Bockting: A Southern Sanctity: James Dickey’s ‘The Heaven of Animals’ – Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec: ‘In terms of grace and carnal loss’: Oraclau/Oracles by Geoffrey Hill.