The Saint Mary's Book of Christian Verse - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0852449860 ISBN 13: 9780852449868

Publisher: Gracewing, 2022

Synopsis

The Saint Mary's Book of Christian Verse brings together the work of poets from across the English-speaking world to celebrate the sacred art of poetry in all of its pied beauty.
Chosen by the acclaimed Newman scholar Edward Short, the collection captures not only the range but the richness of Christian verse. The last comparable anthology of Christian poetry to appear was Donald Davie's Oxford Book of Christian Verse (1981): a proper successor, one more reflective of the true scope and variety of Christian poetry, has been long overdue.
 
The Saint Mary's Book of Christian Verse supplies that need with a dazzling compilation encompassing over eight centuries of Christian verse by poets extending from Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, George Herbert, John Donne, John Milton and Henry Vaughan to William Cowper, Isaac Watts, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot and Dana Gioia. In between, readers will find poems about faith, hope, love, loss, praise, rejoicing, mortality and immortality from such beloved poets as St. Robert Southwell, Thomas Traherne, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Wallace Stevens, Charles Causley, Elizabeth Jennings, James McAuley, and Richard Wilbur.
 
A perfect anthology for schools, colleges and the general reader, The Saint Mary's Book of Christian Verse will serve as a welcome reaffirmation for readers around the world of how vital Christian verse has been and remains to our deeply humanizing, deeply civilizing Christian inheritance.
 
Edward Short is the author of several studies of Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman, as well as What the Bells Sang: Essays and Reviews,    He lives in New York with his wife and two young children.

About this title

About the Author

Edward Short is the author of Newman and his Contemporaries (2011), Newman and his Family (2013) and Newman and History (2017), as well as Adventures in the Book Pages (2015), which the Catholic Herald called 'wise, witty and entertaining.' His critical edition of Newman's Anglican Difficulties (2021) looks at what the great convert made of the false and brazen things at the heart of establishments. His latest collection of essays, What the Bells Sang (2022), includes wide-ranging pieces on poets, novelists, moralists, historians and St John Henry Newman. He lives in New York with his wife and two children

From the Back Cover

"A mesmerizingly beautiful anthology... The Saint Mary's Book of Christian Verse will act as the restorative music we need, full of prayers, devotions, laments, and praise... A phenomenal introduction to the majesty of Christian verse in English." — Prof. Emma Mason, University of Warwick The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Jennings (ed.)

From the Inside Flap

"This impressively rich collection will edify readers of all ages with what Short calls in his introduction 'an admirably coherent aesthetic - one that is at once humanizing and civilizing.' ...moving and profound.'"
--The Iterim

Edition details

• Publisher: Gracewing
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0852449860
• ISBN 13: 9780852449868
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 412
• Editor: Short Edward