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Godfrey John was widely published in the Christian Science periodicals, including the Monitor, for over 40 years. [9] He published a collection of poems and essays in the books Five Seasons (Foursquare Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977) and Compassion Wins (Thomson-Shore, Inc., Dexter, Michigan, 2001). [5]
Hart was born on 5 July 1954 to James Henry Hart and his wife, Rosina Mary Wooton. [2] Hart's family moved to Brisbane, Australia, in 1966. [3] Hart attended secondary school at Oxley State High School, [3] and gained his Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the Australian National University. [4]
The writings of a Christian poet are not necessarily classified as Christian poetry nor are writings of secular poets dealing with Christian material. The themes of poetry are necessarily hard to pin down, and what some see as a Christian theme or viewpoint may not be seen by others. A number of modern writers are widely considered to have ...
In 1853, her Monterey and Other Poems was published which included poems focusing on the recent Mexican–American War, [83] and a poem pleading for the US to help those affected by the Great Famine of Ireland. [84] She stated in her 1903 autobiography, edited by Will Carleton, that she "was under a feeling of sadness and depression at this ...
The Roman emperor Constantine the Great was one of the first major figures to believe that Eclogue 4 was a pre-Christian augury concerning Jesus Christ. [9]According to Classicist Domenico Comparetti, in the early Christian era, "A certain theological doctrine, supported by various passages of [Judeo-Christian] scripture, induced men to look for prophets of Christ among the Gentiles". [10]
Guite is the author of five books of poetry, including two chapbooks and three full-length collections, as well as several books on Christian faith and theology. Guite has a decisively simple, formalist style in poems, many of which are sonnets, and he stated that his aim is to "be profound without ceasing to be beautiful". [1]
Like many poems of the Anglo-Saxon period, The Dream of the Rood exhibits many Christian and pre-Christian images, but, in the final analysis, is a Christian piece. [24] Examining the poem as a pre-Christian (or pagan) text is difficult, as the scribes who wrote it down were Christian monks who lived in a time when Christianity was firmly ...
John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar.He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" school of poetry.