Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction, Adrian Grafe (Paris IV, Sorbonne, France)
1.Gerard Manley Hopkins as religious conduit in Geoffrey Hill, George Mackay Brown and Edwin Muir, Catherine Phillips (Cambridge University)
2. From the Beauty of religion to the religion of beauty: Catholicism and aestheticism in fin-de-siècle poetry, Claire Masurel-Murray (Paris III, France)
3. The heart's censer: Liturgy, poetry and the Catholic devotional revolution, Maureen Moran (Brunel University)
4. Hymns in a man's life: The Congregational chapel and D.H. Lawrence's early poetry, Andrew Harrison (University of Darmstadt)
5. Slouching towards Bethlehem: Yeats, Eliot and the Modernist Apocalypse, David Rudrum (London Metropolitan University)
6.‘The unattended moment': Selfhood and the experience of the transcendent in Eliot's Four Quartets, David Summers (Capital University, Ohio)
7. 'If/Sins can be forgiven, if bodies rise from the dead': forgiveness and the body in Auden's post-conversion poems, Kathleen Bell (De Montfort University)
8. Kathleen Raine: Song of the living soul, Annick Johnson (Artois University)
9.The sacrificial victim in David Jones's In Parenthesis, Roland Bouyssou (Toulouse Mirail University, France)
10.‘For the failure of language there is no redress': R.S. Thomas, poetry and prayer, Daniel Szabo (Paris 7 University, France)
11. The metaphysical joke: church going with Philip Larkin, Andrew McKeown (University of Poitiers, France)
12. 'Metamorphic power': Geoffrey Hill and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Taylor Merriman (Boston University)
13. Simone Weil among the poets, Adrian Grafe (Paris IV, Sorbonne, France)
14. Christian poetry and 'now', Michael Edwards (Collège de France, Paris)
Index

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An original contribution to understanding of an important but overlooked aspect of modern poetry, offering a comparative approach to the topic.

About the Author

Adrian Grafe is Professor of English at Université d’Artois, France. He has published widely on the connections between popular music and literature and written for TLS, Essays in Criticism and The Spectator. He co-edited and contributed to 21st-Century Dylan: Late and Timely (Bloomsbury, 2021). His novel The Ravens of Vienna was published in 2022.

Reviews

Mention -Chronicle of Higher Education, July 11, 2008

"Claire Mansurel Murray gives a clear-sighted, historicist analysis of the Catholic element in the Arsthetic movement... As so often, Auden makes up his own rules, and somehow gets away with it... Emily Taylor Merriman respectfully parallels the Pauline vocations of Hopkins and Hill..." James Booth, MLR, 104.3, 2009