Divine inspiration : the life of Jesus in world poetry
The Bible is a leading source of inspiration for Western literature, and in particular, the life of Jesus has drawn the attention of artists and writers throughout the ages. This volume present 280 poems from world literature focusing on Jesus's life and teaching.
Poetry
1 online resource (xliii, 580 pages)
1148799866
Poets included: Chinua Achebe
Adam of St. Victor
Fleur Adcock
Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia
Anna Akhmatova
Alcuin
Ambrose
Anatolius
Thomas Aquinas
Robert Atwan
Margaret Atwood
W.H. Auden
Funso Avejina
Kofi Awoonor
Charles Baudelaire
James Keir Baxter
Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli
Hans Benzmann
Bertken
Nils Bolander
Jorge Borges
Gwendolyn Brooks
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ernesto Cardenal
Gladys May Casely-Hayford
Nirendra Nath Chakrabarti
Antonio Cisneros
Sarah N. Cleghorn
Clement of Alexandria
DeWitt Clinton
Arthur Hugh Clough
Leonard Cohen
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bela Csendes
Fazil Husnu Daglarca
Dante Alighieri
Ruben Dario
Ricaredo Demetillo
Rene Depestre
Elmer Diktonius
Giovanni Dominici
John Donne
Annette von Droste-Hulshoff
Yuliya Drunina
W.E.B. DuBois
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
Gunnar Ekelof
Ephrem
Nils Ferlin
Hjalmar Flax
Franco Fortini
Venantius Fortunatus
Federico Garcia Lorca
Kahlil Gibran
Luis de Gongora y Argote
Susan Griffen
Miguel de Guevara
Nikolai Gumilyov
Oscar Hahn
Thomas Hardy
Khalil Hawi
George Herbert
Hildegard of bingen
Hippolytus of Rome
Marcella Marie Holloway
A.D. Hope
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Constantijn Huygens
Thomas Immoos
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
Max Jacob
Jocopone da Todi
Elizabeth Jennings
Juan Ramon Jimenez
John of the Cross
Juana Ines de la Cruz
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Kassia
Eileen Kelly
X.J. Kennedy
Jane Kenyon
Jack Kerouac
Yusuf al-Khal
Ludwig Theobul Kosegarten
Ku Sang
Jean de LaCeppede
Emmanuel Lacaba
D.H. Lawrence
Hae-in Lee
Denise Levertov
Primo Levi
Phillis Levin
Jorge de Lima
Robert Lowell
Fray Luis de Leon
Martin Luther
Vladimir Lvov
John W. Lynch
George Ella Lyon
Antonio Machado y Ruizo
Bertil Malmberg
Jack Mapanje
Marbod of Rennes
Giambattista Marino
Raissa Maritain
Edwin Markham
Carlos Martinez Rivas
Andrew Marvell
R.A.K. Mason
James McAuley
Harold McCurdy
Francisco de Medrano
Thomas Merton
Methodius of Olympus
Michelangelo
Vassar Miller
Czeslaw Milosz
John Milton
Gabriela Mistral
Dom Moraes
Andrezj Morsztyn
Oswald Mbuyoseni Mtshali
Edwin Muir
Abioseh Nicol
Kathleen Norris
Robert Oberg
Odia Ofeimun
Anders Johan Osterling
Filippo Pananti
Takis Papatsonis
Giovanni Pascoli
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Boris Pasternak
Diaconus Paulus
Charles Peguy
Carlos Pellicer
Nis Petersen
Petrarch
Mikhail Pozdnyayev
Jacques Prevert
Prudentius
Maurus Rabanus
Julia Randall
Jacobus Revius
Rainer Maria Rilke
Romanos
Gyorgy Ronay
Jacques Roumain
Tadeusz Rozewicz
Yelena Rubisova
Patrick Henry Ryan
Jose Sanchez-Boudy
May Sarton
Taufiq Sayigh
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
Ernst Ludwig Schellenberg
Leopold Sedar Senghor
Angelos Sikelianos
Istvan Sinka
Christopher Smart
Robert Southwell
Wole Soyinka
Rabindranath Tagore
Edward Taylor
Teresa of Avila
Theodulf of Orleans
R.S. Thomas
Fadwa Tuquan
Gerald Felix Tchicaya U Tamsi
Miguel de Unamuno
Jose de Valdivielso
Cesar Vallejo
Kostas Varnalis
Henry Vaughan
Felix Lope de Vega y Carpio
Paul Verlaine
Jose Garcia Villa
Joost van den Vondel
Kathleen Wakefield
Alice Walker
Paul Wegner
Franz Werfel
Richard Wilbur
Ole Wivel
Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II)
Wu Li
William Butler Yeats
Adam Zagajewski
Mikola Zerov
Xingyao Zhang
Simon Zhao
Paul Zimmer
Includes indexes
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