Divine Inspiration: The Life of Jesus in World Poetry

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Robert Atwan, George Dardess, Peggy Rosenthal
Oxford University Press, 1998 - 580 من الصفحات
The Bible is by far the leading source of inspiration for Western literature, and in particular, the life of Jesus has drawn the attention of artists and writers throughout the ages. Now, in a volume of astonishing range and originality, Robert Atwan, George Dardess, and Peggy Rosenthal present 280 remarkable poems from world literature focusing on Jesus's life and teaching.
Readers accustomed to the predictable inclusions of many anthologies will be surprised and delighted by the diversity of poets represented here, from Aquinas, Dante, de Guevara, Donne, and Sor Juana, to D.H. Lawrence, Gabriela Mistral, Wole Soyinka, Margaret Atwood, Gwendolyn Brooks, Czeslaw Milosz, and Leopold Senghor. Perhaps no other thematically organized anthology could have brought together writers as different as Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Merton, Alice Walker, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Jack Kerouac. Indeed, simply to turn the page in Divine Inspiration is an adventure in itself. And in terms of form, style, modulations of tone and perspective, the variety here is as unparalleled as it is unpredictable.
The editors of Divine Inspiration have done a masterful job of unifying this vast assortment of poems. Organized chronologically around the life of Jesus, the book is divided into nine sections--from Birth and Infancy, through Healings and Miracles, to the Resurrection-- and presents passages from the Gospels followed by the poems they inspired. This structure gives readers the dual pleasures of a strong narrative pull punctuated by moments of lyric intensity. Our familiarity with the life of Jesus is thus enlivened, deepened, and in some cases wholly transformed by the imaginative power of the poems. In the largest section of the book, on the Passion of Jesus, we find an array of poems by Anna Akhmatova, Antonio Machado, Thomas Hardy, Miguel de Unamuno, Charles Baudelaire, R.S. Thomas, Andrew Marvell, Frederico Garcia Lorca, and Denise Levertov, among others. To see the Passion of Jesus refracted through the lenses of such poets is to see it anew, or more vividly than before. And to encounter Chinese, Korean, Nigerian, Arab, Latin American, Scandinavian, Hungarian, and Greek poets alongside English, French, and German is a testimony both to the editors' devoted scholarship and to the power of Jesus's life to inspire great poetry across a spectrum of cultures and eras.
An invaluable sourcebook for students, scholars, and general readers alike, Divine Inspiration should prove equally satisfying to readers with a strong interest in religion and to all lovers of poetry

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The Incarnation
2
5766
15
110
19
The Shepherds
29
The Circumcision and Naming
35
The Adoration of the Magi
42
1314
48
The Return to Nazareth
56
When You Fast
304
Wolves in Sheeps Clothing
310
Take Up the Cross
320
49
326
The Greatest Commandment
329
Am Not of This World
336
5a 78 19
342
3133
348

PREPARATION FOR PUBLIC MINISTRY
63
79
70
The Temptation of Jesus
78
311
84
The Call of the Disciples
95
Jesus Rejected at Nazareth
101
110
107
The Pool at Bethesda
114
The Blind Man at Bethsaida
120
The Calming of the Storm
128
4653
134
The Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes
145
Peter Tries and Fails
155
The Man Born Blind
165
The Raising of Lazarus
172
67a
179
Nicodemus at Night
186
The Samaritan Woman at the Well
189
The Woman Taken in Adultery
203
Women Followers
218
The Treasure Hidden in a Field
228
One Lost Sheep
236
1132
243
Wheat and Tares
249
The Rich Man and Lazarus
256
The Laborers in the Vineyard
262
The Vigilant Servant
268
The Talents
278
The Beatitudes
284
If You Are Angry
290
The Lords Prayer
292
The Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem
354
The Withered
366
The FootWashing
381
As the Father Has Loved
394
The Agony in the Garden
402
The Arrest
408
5152
414
The Trial
425
28
434
The Crown of Thorns
440
The Way of the Cross
447
Between Two Thieves
460
Father Forgive Them
465
3943
471
2627
479
The Sponge Soaked in Vinegar
487
The Earthquake
493
The Burial
501
5556
509
34
516
He Has Risen
523
39
529
The Appearance to the Women
540
The Road to Emmaus
547
Doubting Thomas
556
The Ascension
565
Credits
571
42b48
575
Index of Titles
577
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Robert Atwan is the series editor of The Best American Essays. He recently edited Divine Inspiration, a volume of world poetry on the Gospels.

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