Thick and dazzling darkness :

O'Leary, Peter, 1968-

Thick and dazzling darkness : religious poetry in a secular age / Peter O'Leary. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: religious poetry in a secular age -- A mystical theology of angelic despair: writing religious poetry and the trilogy of Frank Samperi -- Robinson Jeffers, the man from whom god hid everything -- Spiritual osmosis: Geoffrey Hill's recent poetry -- Prophetic frustrations: Robert Duncan's Tribunals -- What lies beneath my copy of eternity? religious language in the poetry of Lissa Wolsak -- Catholics: reading Fanny Howe -- Robert Duncan's celestial hierarchy -- The long-huthered hajj: Nathaniel Mackey's esotericism -- Apocalypticism: a way forward for poetry.

9780231545976 0231545975

22573/ctt1xcnkcg JSTOR

2017024983


1900-1999


Religious poetry, American--History and criticism.
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Religion in literature.
Religion and literature.
American poetry.
Religion and literature.
Religion in literature.
Religious poetry, American.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry


Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.

PS310.R4

811.009/382