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Divine Inspiration: The Life of Jesus in World Poetry Hardcover - 1997

by Robert Atwan (Editor); George Dardess (Editor); Peggy Rosenthal (Editor)

An extraordinary gathering of 280 poems from world literature which focus on the most significant events in the life of Jesus, "Divine Inspiration" offers a rich diversity of works by Thomas Aquinas, Dante Alighieri, John Donne, Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, Jack Kerouac, and others.


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In a volume of astonishing range and originality, Robert Atwan, George Dardess, and Peggy Rosenthal present 280 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.

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  • Title Divine Inspiration: The Life of Jesus in World Poetry
  • Author Robert Atwan (Editor); George Dardess (Editor); Peggy Rosenthal (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 624
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
  • Date 1997-12-11
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780195093513 / 0195093518
  • Weight 2.46 lbs (1.12 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.42 x 1.7 in (23.42 x 16.31 x 4.32 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Academic
  • Library of Congress subjects Jesus Christ - Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96041983
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.819

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Citations

  • Booklist, 01/01/1998, Page 767
  • Library Journal, 12/01/1997, Page 112
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/24/1997, Page 66

About the author

Robert Atwan is the founder and series editor of The Best American Essays and coeditor of the two-volume anthology Chapters into Verse: Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible. His literary criticism and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Kenyon Review, The Denver Quarterly, and other publications.
George Dardess is English Department Chairman at Allendale Columbia School, where he teaches the Bible and world literature. He co-authored Every Cliche in the Book with Peggy Rosenthal.
Peggy Rosenthal has published articles on Walt Whitman, on women's writing, and on popular culture, and has written on religion for Christian Century, Commonweal, Cross Currents and America. Besides co-authoring Every Cliche in the Book, she is also the author of a study of language, Words and Values

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