David Lyle Jeffrey (PhD, Princeton University) is Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and professor emeritus at the University of Ottawa. He has written numerous books, including A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature, People of the Book, In the Beauty of Holiness, and a commentary on the Gospel of Luke.

• ContentsIntroduction1. Poetry and the Voice of GodPart 1: Medieval Poetry and the Bible2. Paraphrase and Theater: Bonaventure's Retracing the Arts to Theology and Literary Evangelism3. Quotation and Inflection: Dante and Chaucer on the Sermon on the Mount4. Egyptian Gold: Biblical Transformations of Ovid in The Canterbury Tales5. Irony and Misreading: Courtly Love and Marriage according to Henry VIIIPart 2: Scripture and the English Poetic Imagination after the Reformation6. Poetry in Preaching, Prayer, and Pastoral Care: John Donne and George Herbert7. Habitual Music: The Influence on English Poets of the King James Bible8. Conclusion and Form for the Personal in Modern Poetry9. The Conversion Poems of Margaret Avison10. Meditation and Gratitude: The Enduringly Beautiful Changes of Richard Wilbur11. Epiphanies of a Father's Love: Anthony Hecht and Gjertrud SchnackenbergAppendix: Can Faustus Be Saved? The Fragile Future of Our Common BookIndex

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