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, 2000年9月28日 - 512 頁
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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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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