TY - BOOK ID - 78142778 TI - Ecstasy and understanding PY - 2008 SN - 1474211364 1441193138 9781441193131 9780826498649 0826498647 9781474211369 9781441146052 1441146059 9781441146052 PB - London New York DB - UniCat KW - English poetry KW - Religion in literature. KW - Religion in drama KW - Religion in poetry KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78142778 AB - This collection of research explores the interaction of religious awareness and literary expression in English poetry in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  Many different types of poetics may be seen to be at work in the period 1875 to 2005, along with various kinds of religious awareness and poetic expression. Religious experience has a crucial influence on literary language, and the latter is renewed by religious culture. The religious dimension has been a decisive factor of modern English poetic expression of the last hundred years or so. The religious and mystical dimension of poetry of the period is borne out by the focus on, among other things, grace and purgation, the tension between time and eternity, redemption and the demands of eschatology, immanence and transcendence, and conversion and martyrdom. Chapters also explore how church practice and ritual, architecture and liturgy, play into the poetry of the period. This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of this important but often overlooked aspect of modern English poetry. ER -