Great Christian poetry
In another unrelated thread, someone brought up the need for more classic poetry - there's already some available in the Harvard Classics and some other individual volumes that I noted here.
But here are some poets and anthologies that I'd like to see available in Logos (or Noet? though that is to be aimed at a secular/scholarly market, as I understand)
George Herbert, The Temple (his collected poems organized into an intentional order, with some of his prose as well) or The Complete English Poems
Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Complete Poems
R. S. Thomas, Collected Poems: 1945-1990 and Collected Later Poems: 1988-2000
Denise Levertov, The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes
T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems, 1909-1962 and The Four Quartets
W.H. Auden, Selected Poems (edited by Edward Mendelson)
Anthologies:
The Country of the Risen King: An Anthology of Christian Poetry (ed., Merle Meeter)
The Gospels in Our Image: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Poetry Based on Biblical Texts (ed., David Curzon)
Modern Poems on the Bible: An Anthology (ed., David Curzon)
The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse (ed., Donald Davie)
Odd Angles of Heaven: Contemporary Poetry by People of Faith (ed., David Craig & Janet McCann)
A Sacrifice of Praise: An Anthology of Christian Poetry in English from Caedmon to the Mid-Twentieth Century (ed., James H Trott and Larry Woiwode)
Upholding Mystery: An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Poetry (ed., David Impasto)
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[Y] I'm all in. Thank you for putting together such a great list!
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Randy W. Sims (Shayne) said:
Thank you for putting together such a great list!
Randy, you might be interested in this excellent list of Modern and Contemporary Poets of Christian Faith that I refer people to often, put together by an English professor at Dallas Baptist UniversityHe also has some interesting Notes Towards a Theology of Poetry here: http://www3.dbu.edu/mitchell/theology.htm0 -
Thanks Rosie for the great list.
Another to add:
The Lion Book of Christian Poetry, Compiled by Mary Batchelor
From the cover '...brings together 600 poems by more than 250 poets spanning over 1,000 years...arranged by theme'
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Shall we also add these anthologies?
- Chapters into Verse: Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible : Genesis to Malachi by Robert Atwan and Laurance Wieder
- Modern Poems on the Bible: An Anthology by David Curzon
- Divine Inspiration: The Life of Jesus in World Poetry by Robert Atwan, George Dardess, Peggy Rosenthal
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Rosie Perera said:
English professor at Dallas Baptist University http://www3.dbu.edu/mitchell/christia3.htm
Added to the Reading List http://topics.logos.com/Web_resources
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Here are some more from my bookshelves that I omitted in the first round:
- The Poets' Book of Psalms: The Complete Psalter as Rendered by Twenty-Five Poets from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, edited by Laurance Wieder
- Place of Passage: Contemporary Catholic Poetry, edited by David Craig & Janet McCann
- Joyce Kilmer's Anthology of Catholic Poets, edited by Joyce Kilmer & Shaemus O'Sheel
- Anthology of Catholic Poets, edited by Shane Leslie
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Thank you, Martha! *smile* Peace!
Edit! .... and ...... Thank you, Rosie! I thought I'd thanked you already! This is a great thread! :-)
Philippians 4: 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........
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Rosie Perera said:
Randy, you might be interested in this excellent list of Modern and Contemporary Poets of Christian Faith that I refer people to often, put together by an English professor at Dallas Baptist University http://www3.dbu.edu/mitchell/christia3.htm He also has some interesting Notes Towards a Theology of Poetry here: http://www3.dbu.edu/mitchell/theology.htm
I'm indebted to you again, Rosie. Thank you for the references. I'm enjoying reading through his "Notes Toward a Theological Definition of Poetry" now.
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If you love great Christian poetry, don't miss Hymns of the Eastern Church, which is part of History of the Holy Eastern Church (6 vols), which can be bought cheaply on CP for a few more hours.
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Rosie Perera,
just seeing this as I was googling for contemporary Christian poetry. Very helpful and comprehensive, your earlier list. Just reading Impastato's anthology.
thanks
john Robert Lee
christian poet, Saint Lucia, West Indies
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