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Christian poetry figured prominently in the Western literary canon from the Antiquity through the 18th century. [34] However, with the progressive secularization of Western Civilization from about 1800 until the present, [35] religious poetry is being less represented in Western academic writing.
The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse was a poetry anthology edited by Daniel Howard Sinclair Nicholson and Arthur Hugh Evelyn Lee, and published in 1917 by the Oxford University Press. The compilation contains much religious verse, mainly from English Christian traditions, and some from other religions.
Guite returned gradually to his Christian faith, first under the influence of beauty in the poetry of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley and visits to historical sites that had deep religious significance—Rome, Glencolmcille, and Scotland's Iona. [4] After delving into the works of Keats and Shelley, Guite decided to begin writing poetry. [4]
Francis Junius was the first to credit Cædmon, the 7th century Anglo-Saxon religious poet, as the author of the manuscript. Junius was not alone in suggesting that Cædmon was the author of the manuscript, as many others noticed the “book’s collective contents strikingly resembled the body of work ascribed by Bede to the oral poet Cædmon” (Remley 264).
Pages in category "Religious poetry" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. At the Hub; B.
One of the guiding motifs of the collection is the imagined interaction between humans and gods, for which Dennis draws off the Greek and Christian pantheons. [3] The poems of Practical Gods can be generally described as free verse [4] and which John Taylor called "thinking poetry" given a heavy emphasis on "exposition of thought" rather than sensory description. [5]
Religious poetry (8 C, 8 P) A. Agamas (25 P) B. Buddhist literature (13 C, 21 P) C. Christian literature (17 C, 79 P) D. Devotional literature (3 C, 8 P) F. Funerary ...
Latin was also used for religious lyric poetry and epic verse such as Walafrid Strabo's 9th-century "De visionibus Wettini" (a predecessor of Dante's vernacular Divine Comedy), while Jesuits such as Jakob Masen (author of Sarcotis, a probable influence on Milton's Paradise Lost) also produced Latin epic verse as late as the 17th century. [5]