Poesía religiosa

 

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A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Religious poetry

 

 

Alter, Robert. The Art of Biblical Poetry. New York: Basic Books, 1985.

_____. The Art of Biblical Poetry. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1990. 2000.*

Buckley, Vincent. Poetry and the Sacred. 1968.

Cormican, L. A. "Milton's Religious Verse." In From Donne to Marvell. Ed. Boris Ford. Vol. 3 of The Pelican Guide to English Literature, gen. ed. Boris Ford. Harmondsworth: Penguin-Pelican, 1956. 1979. 173-92.*

Daiches, David. "Around Cynewulf." From A Critical History of English Literature. In García Landa, Vanity Fea 23 Sept. 2014.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/09/around-cynewulf.html

         2014

Davie, Donald. The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England. 1993.

Dennis, John. The Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry.  1701.  Select. in Adams 273-275.

Enright, D. J. "George Herbert and the Devotional Poets." In From Donne to Marvell. Ed. Boris Ford. Vol. 3 of The Pelican Guide to English Literature, gen. ed. Boris Ford. Harmondsworth: Penguin-Pelican, 1956. 1979. 142-59.*

Fairchild, Hoxie N. Religious Trends in English Poetry, 1700-1780. 2 vols. 1939, 1942.

Fish, Stanley. The Living Temple: George Herbert and Catechizing. Berkeley: U of California P, 1978.

Garau, Jaume. "Justas poéticas en honor de santos en la Mallorca del Siglo de Oro."  In Estado actual de los estudios sobre el Siglo de Oro. Ed. Manuel García Martín et al. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 1993. 395-402.*

Hutchinson, F.E. "The Sacred Poets." In Cavalier and Puritan. Ed. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. 1911. Vol. VII of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. Ed. A. W. Ward et al. New York: Putnam's; Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 1907–21. Electronic edition (Bartleby.com).* (Sacred poets; Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan, Herbert, Habington).

http://www.bartleby.com/217/

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Keble, John.  "Sacred Poetry."  1825.  In English Critical Essays (Nineteenth Century).  Ed. Edmund D. Jones.  London: Oxford UP, 1916.  191-22.*

Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer. Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric. Princeton (NJ): Princeton UP, 1979.

Maestre, Agapito. "Don Marcelino y la lírica." Libertad Digital 8 Nov. 2021.*

         https://www.libertaddigital.com/cultura/libros/2021-11-08/agapito-maestre-don-marcelino-y-el-poder-de-la-lirica-6835594/ 

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Martz, Louis L.  The Poetry of Meditation: A Study in English Religious Literature of the Seventeenth Century.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1954.

Menéndez Pelayo, Marcelino. "La poesía mística en España." 1881. In Menéndez Pelayo, Antología de estudios y discursos literarios. Ed. Mario Crespo López. Madrid: Cátedra, 2009. 165-204.*

_____. "De la poesía mística." In Menéndez y Pelayo, San Isidoro, Cervantes y otros estudios. Ed. José María de Cossío. (Austral). Madrid; Espasa-Calpe, 1941. 4th ed. 1959. 29-82.*

Olivares, Julián, ed. Eros divino: Estudios sobre la poesía religiosa iberoamericana del siglo XVII. (Humanidades, 20). Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias, 2010.*

Orozco Díaz, Emilio. "Notas sueltas sobre la lírica religiosa de Góngora: Consideraciones en torno a la crítica." In Estudios sobre el Siglo de Oro: Homenaje al profesor Francisco Ynduráin. Madrid: Editora Nacional, 1984. 319-43.*

Richardson, Robert D., Jr. From "The Puritan Poety of Anne Bradstreet." Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Fall 1967): 317-31. Rpt. in The Critical Perspective: Volume 3: Elizabethan-Caroline. Ed. Harold Bloom. (The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism). New York: Chelsea House, 1986. 1625-30.*

Sanders, Andrew. "'Metaphysical' Religious Poetry: Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan." From The Short Oxford History of English Literature. In García Landa, Vanity Fea 30 Sept. 2014.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/09/metaphysical-religious-poetry-herbert.html

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Skelton, John. "Howe yong scolers nowe a dayes." In A replycacion agaynst certayne yong scolers abiured of late etc.  London, 1528. (Devotional Poetry; The Bible; Nature of poetry; Religion; Ethics; Ideology)

Smith, M. Bentinck "4. Old English Christian Poetry." In From the Beginnings to the Cycle of Romance. Vol. 1 (English) of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Ed. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. Online at Bartleby.com

         http://www.bartleby.com/211/index.html

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Starkman, Miriam K. "Noble Numbers and the Poetry of Devotion." In Reason and the Imagination. Ed. J. A. Mazzeo. New York: Columbia UP, 1962. 1-27.

Strier, Richard. Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert's Poetry. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1983. 1985.

Stull, W. L. "'Why Are not Sonnets Made of Thee?'" Modern Philology 80 (1982). (Religious sonnets).

Summers, Claude J., and Ted-Larry Pebworth, eds. "Bright Shootes of Everlastingnesse": The Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1987.

Summers, Joseph H. George Herbert: His Religion and Art. London: Chatto and Windus, 1954.  

_____. George Herbert: His Religion and His Art. 1981.

Valente, José Ángel. La experiencia abisal [1978-1999]. Obras completas, II: Ensayos. Introd. Claudio Rodríguez Fer. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores / Galaxia Gutenberg, cop. 2008 [issued 2010]. 601-760.*

_____. "Eros y fruición divina." From La piedra y el centro. In Valente, Obras completas, II: Ensayos. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores / Galaxia Gutenberg, cop. 2008. 290-96.* (Mysticism).

_____. "El sueño de la red." From Variaciones sobre el pájaro y la red. In Valente, Obras completas, II: Ensayos. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores / Galaxia Gutenberg, cop. 2008. 369-71.* (Mysticism).

_____. "Sobre el lenguaje de los místicos: convergencia y transmisión." From Variaciones sobre el pájaro y la red. In Valente, Obras completas, II: Ensayos. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores / Galaxia Gutenberg, cop. 2008. 371-85.*

_____. "La lengua de los pájaros." From Elogio del calígrafo. In Valente, Obras completas, II: Ensayos. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores / Galaxia Gutenberg, cop. 2008. 513-35.* (Eden, mystics, metaphysical poets).

Watts, Isaac.  Preface to the second edition of Horae Lyricae. 1706.  (Religious poetry). 

Wilcox, Helen. "'The Soul in Paraphrase': The Devotional Poetry of George Herbert and His Contemporaries." In SEDERI VI. Ed. Ana María Manzanas Calvo. N.p.: SEDERI, 1996. 229-37.*

 

 

 

Anthologies

 

Nicholson and Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of Mystical Verse. 1917.

di Cesare, Mario. George Herbert and the Seventeenth Century Religious Poets.  (Norton Critical Edition).  New York: Norton, 1978.

Gardner, Helen, ed. The Faber Book of Religious Verse. 1972.

May, G. Lacey, ed. English Religious Verse. (Everyman's Library, 937). London: Dent; New York: Dutton.

Thomas, R. S., ed.  The Penguin Book of Religious Verse.  1963.

 

 

 

 

 

Literature

 

 

Drummond, William. Urania, or Spiritual Poems. In Drummond's Works, ed. Edward Philips. 1656.

_____. Flowres of Sion, or Spiritual Poems. Edinburgh, 1623.

_____. Flowres of Sion. In Drummond's Works, ed. Edward Philips. 1656.

_____. Flowres of Sion. In Drummond, Poems and Prose. Ed. Robert H. MacDonald. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, dist. Chatto and Windus, 1976. 88-128.*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See also Hymns.

Literatura y religión

 

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A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

 

Literature and Religion

 

 

Abrams, M. H., ed. Literature and Belief: English Institute Essays. 1957.

Alborg, Juan Luis. "XXI. La literatura ascética y mística." In Alborg, Historia de la Literatura Española (I): Edad Media y Renacimiento. 2nd ed., enlarged. Madrid: Gredos, 1970. (Mysticism; Asceticism; Fray Luis de Granada; Fray Diego de Estella; Fray Juan de los Ángeles; Beato Orozco; Fray Pedro Malón de Chaide; Santa Teresa de Jesús; San Juan de la Cruz).

Alter, R. Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture. New Haven (CT): Yale UP, 2000.

Arnold, Matthew. Literature and Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible. 1873. London: Smith, Elder, 1883.

Augustine. (354-430). From On Christian Doctrine. (1.II, 2.I-IV, 3.XXIX). In The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch et al. New York: Norton, 2001.*

_____. From The Trinity. (15.9.15; 15.10.18; 15.11.20). In The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch et al. New York: Norton, 2001.*

Baden, H. Jürgen. Literatur und Bekehrung. Stuttgart: Klett, 1968.

_____. Literatura y conversión. Trans. Luis Alberto Martín Baro. Madrid: Guadarrama, 1969.

Basil the Great. "On the Right Use of Greek Poetry." In Essays on the Study and Use of Poetry. Ed. and trans. F. M. Padelford. New York: Holt, 1902.

Battenhouse, Roy W. "Theology and Literary Criticism." In Journal of Bible and Religion 13 (1945).

Bevan, David, ed. Literature and the Bible. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993.

Beversluis, John. C. S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985.

Bremond, H. La Poésie pure. 1926.

_____. Histoire littéraire du sentiment religieux.

Brooks, Cleanth. Community, Religion, and Literature: Essays. 1995.

Chateaubriand. Le Génie du christianisme. 1802.

Dowden, Edward. Puritan and Anglican: Studies in Literature. 3rd ed. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1910.*

Du Bos, Charles. Du spirituel dans l'ordre littéraire. Paris: Corti, 1967.

Edwards, Michael. Towards a Christian Poetics.

_____. "Writing and Redemption." In Writing the Future. Ed. David Wood. London: Routledge, 1990. 129-36.*

Elizalde, I. Literatura y espiritualidad. Deusto: Universidad de Deusto, 1983.

Eliot, T. S. "Religion and Literature." 1921. Rpt. in Eliot, Selected Essays. 3rd ed. 388-401.*

Fraser, Hilary. Beauty and Belief: Aesthetics and Religion in Victorian Literature. 1986.

Freiburg, Rudolf, ed. 'To Vindicate the Ways of God to Man': Theodicy and Literature. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, forthcoming 2004.

Frost, William. "Religious and Philosophical Themes in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature." 1971. In Dryden to Johnson. Ed. Roger Lonsdale. Vol. 4 of Penguin History of Literature. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993. 351-82.*

Frye, Northrop. The Great Code: The Bible and Literature. New York: Harcourt, 1982.

_____. The Great Code: The Bible and Literature. Harvest Books, 2002.

_____. Le Grand Code. (Poétique). Paris: Seuil.

Gardner, Helen. Religion and Literature. 1971.

Garmendia de Otaola, Antonio. (SJ). Lecturas buenas y malas a la luz del dogma y de la moral. 1949.

Grant, Patrick. Breaking Enmities: Religion, Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland, 1967-1997. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1999.

Gunn, Giles. The Interpretation of Otherness: Literature, Religion, and the American Imagination. 1982.

_____. "Recent Criticism and the Sediments of the Sacred." In Gunn, The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. 173-96.*

Haddad, Gérard. Les Biblioclastes: Le Messie et l'Autodafé. Paris: Grasset, 1991.

Holloway, John. "English and Some Christian Traditions." In The English Mind. Ed. Hugh Sykes Davies and George Watson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1964. 279-302.*

Hopper, S. R., ed. Spiritual Problems in Contemporary Literature. 1952.

Hugh of St. Victor. From The Didascalicon (From 1.11, 3.3, 8; 2.2; 6.8, 9, 10, 11). In The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed. Vincent B. Leitch et al. New York: Norton, 2001.*

Hunter, Robert G. Shakespeare and the Mystery of God's Judgements. Athens (GA): U of Georgia P, 1976.

Jameson, Fredric. "Religion and Ideology: A Political Reading of Paradise Lost." In Literature, Politics and Theory. Ed. Francis Barker et al. London: Methuen, 1986. 35-56.*

Jung, C. G. The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature. Trans. R. F. C. Hull. New York: Pantheon, 1966.

_____. The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature. London: Routledge-Ark, 1984.

Klemm, David E. "Back to Literature—and Theology?" In Postmodernism, Literature and the Future of Theology. Ed. David Jasper. London: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's, 1993. 180-90.*

Laszkiewicz, Weronica. "Finding God(s) in Fantasylands: Religious Ideas in Fantasy Literature." Crossroads: A Journal of English Studies 1 (2013):  24-36.

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Lewis, C. S. "Christianity and Literature." In Lewis, Rehabilitations and Other Essays. London: Oxford UP, 1939. 181-97.*

Lichtenstein, Leonie. "Rushdie, Steiner, Sobol and Others: Moral Boundaries." Encounter 73.3 (March 1989): 34-42.

Loewenstein, David, and John Morrill. "22. Literature and Religion." In The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature. (5. The Civil War and Commonwealth Era). Ed. David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. 2004. 664-713.*

Longinus. Pery hypsous / On the sublime. 80 A. D.? Bilingual edition. Ed. and trans. W. Hamilton Fyfe. In Aristotle, The poetics. 'Longinus'. On the Sublime. Demetrius. On Style. 119-254.

_____. Peri hypsous / Sobre lo sublime. Bilingual edition. InAnónimo, Sobre lo sublime. Aristóteles Poética. Barcelona: Bosch, 1977.

_____. On Literary Excellence. In Gilbert 146-98. Trans. of Peri hypsous.

_____. On the Sublime. Trans. T. S. Dorsch. In Classical Literary Criticism. 97-158.

Mansions of the Spirit: Essays in Religion and Literature. New York: Hawthorn, 1967.

McClure, John A. "Postmodern/Post-Secular: Contemporary Fiction and Spirituality." Modern Fiction Studies 41.1 (Spring 1995): 141-64.*

Miller, J. Hillis. The Disappearance of God. London, 1963.

_____. "Literature and Religion." In Relations of Literary Study: Essays on Interdisciplinary Contributions. Ed. James Thorpe. New York: MLA, 1967. Rpt. in Miller, Theory Now and Then. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991. 63-78.

_____. "Literatur und Religion." In Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven der Literatur. Stuttgart: Enke, 1977. 132-50.

_____. "Theology and Logology in Victorian Literature." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 47.2 (1979): 345-61.

Mills, Kevin. "Literature and Theology." In Twentieth-Century Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives. Ed. Christa Knellwolf and Christopher Norris. Vol. 9 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001. 389-400.*

Mueller, Janel. (U of Chicago). "9. Literature and the Church." In The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature. (2. The Tudor Era from the Reformation to Elizabeth I). Ed. David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. 2004. 257-310.*

Nakjavani, Erik G. R. "Hemingway's African Book of Revelations: Dawning of a 'New Religion' in Under Kilimanjaro." In Hemingway and Africa. Ed. Miriam B. Mandel. Rochester (NY): Camden House, 2011. 273-98.*

Nevison, H. W. "The Faith of Literature." In Nevison, Books and Personalities. London: Lane, 1905. 311-17.*

Nickel, Mattew. "35. Religion." In Ernest Hemingway in Context. Ed. Debra A. Moddelmog and Suzanne del Gizzo. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013. 347-56.*

Onimus, Jean. Béance du divin. Paris, 1994.

Oulton, Carolyn. Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002.

Phillips, Bill. "Religious Belief in Recent Detective Fiction." Atlantis 36.1 (2014): 139-51.*

Porte, Joel. "In the Hands of an Angry God: Religious Terror in Gothic Fiction." In The Gothic Imagination: Essays in Dark Romanticism. Ed. G. R. Thompson. Pullman (WA): Washington State UP, 1974. 42-64.

Prada, Juan Manuel de. Una biblioteca en el oasis. Essays. Magnificat, 2021.

Ruskin, John. "Fancy and Faith." From Fors Clavigera. 1871-84. In The Literary Criticism of John Ruskin. New York: Doubleday, 1965. 340-6.*

Sasek, Lawrence A. The Literary Temper of the English Puritans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1961.

Scott, Nathan A., Jr. Modern Literature and the Religious Frontier. New York, 1958.

_____. The Broken Center: Studies in the Theological Horizons of Modern Literature. New Haven, 1966.

_____. The Poetics of Belief: Studies in Coleridge, Arnold, Pater, Santayana, Stevens and Heidegger.

Shaffer, Elinor S. "Kubla Khan" and the Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological school in Biblical Criticism, and Secular Literature, 1770-1880. Cambridge, 1975.

_____. "Religion and Literature." In Romanticism. Ed. Marshall Brown. Vol. 5 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.*

Shuger, Deborah. "17. Literature and the Church." In The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature. Ed. David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller. (4. The Earlier Stuart Era). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. 2004. 512-43.*

Stachniewski, John. The Persecutory Imagination: English Puritanism and the Literature of Religious Despair. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991.

Strandberg, Victor. Religious Psychology in American Literature: A Study in the Relevance of William James. Madrid: Studia Humanitatis, 1981.

Tolstoi, Lev. What is Art? 1898. Select. in Adams 708-720.

_____. What is Art? And Essays on Art. Trans. Aylmer Maude. London, 1938.

Torrecilla, Adolfo. "La Cabaña: El éxito de una novela religiosa sin esoterismo." Aceprensa 1 Feb. 2011.* (William Paul Young).

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Toynbee, Polly. "Narnia Represents Everything that is Most Hateful about Religion." The Guardian 28 April 2010.

Updike, John. "Remarks on Religion and Contemporary American Literature." New Letters.*

Valette, Jean-René. La Pensée du Graal: Fiction littéraire et théologie (XIIe-XIIIe siècle). Paris: Champion, 2008.

Villegas López, Sonia. Mujer y religión en la narrativa anglófona contemporánea. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 1999. (Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Jane Rogers's Mr Wroe's Virgins, 1991).

Wilder, Amos. Theology and Modern Literature.  Cambridge (MA), 1958.

Walker, Andrew, and Patrick James, eds. Rumours of Heaven: Essays in Celebration of C. S. Lewis. Guildford: Eagle.

Wimsatt, W. K. "Poetry and Christian Thinking." Thought 26 (Summer 1951).

_____. "Poetry and Christian Thinking." In Wimsatt, The Verbal Icon. New York: Noonday, 1958. 267-80.*

 

 

 

 

 

Bibliography

 

English Literature and Religion

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Journals

 

 

Literature and Theology.

Quarterly.

Ed. Graham Ward et al.

Vol. 11 (1997); 21.1 (March 2007)

Oxford: Oxford UP.

http://litthe.oupjournals.org

2007-04-22

 

 

Religion and Literature

Vol. 35.2.3 (Summer/Autumn 2003).

 

 

 

 

 

Series

 

(Les Ecrivains devant Dieu). Bruges: Desclée de Brouwer, 1960s.

 

 

 

 

 

Video

 

 

Maestro, Jesús G. "¿Por qué la Literatura se divorcia de la Religión?" Video lecture. YouTube (Jesús G. Maestro) 26 Feb. 2016.*

         https://youtu.be/3Dqxm5NhugA

         2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

See also: Moral and Religious Criticism