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Language: English
Published by Liturgical Press, 2019
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- Title
- Mystical Prayer: The Poetic Example of Emily Dickinson
- Author
- Murphy, Charles M.
- Publisher
- Liturgical Press
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 081468470X
- ISBN 13
- 9780814684702
In this book, Charles Murphy explores the still unfolding rediscovery of Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), our foremost American poet, as a mystic of profound depth and ambition. She declined publication of almost all of her hundreds of poems during her lifetime, describing them as a record of her wrestling with God, who, in the Puritan religious tradition she received, she found cold and remote. Murphy places Dickinson's writings within the Christian mystical tradition exemplified by St. Teresa of Avila and identifies her poems as expressions of what he terms theologically as "believing unbelief.” Dickinson's experiences of love and her confrontation with human mortality drove her poetic insights and led to her discovery of God in the beauty and mystery of the natural world.
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