Spiritual Canticle And Poems
Spiritual Canticle And Poems

Author: R.H.J. Steuart

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1999-01-07

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 1441153381

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The Spiritual Canticle is one of St John's greatest works. Using the simple metaphor of the spouse and the bride, he sketches a series of dialogues between God and the soul, rihc in natural imagery. The fragrant vineyards, fruitful valleys and green hills, flocks of sheep and clear streams all speak of the Object of mystical love. The images of the basic Spiritual Canticle are so beautiful and its music so captivating that many who first heard it begged St John to write a commentary, together with its profound reflections on the relations of the soul to God, has become one of the world's richest sources of meditation. The commentary and the sublime poetry that inspired them form what is presented here as the complete Spiritual Canticle.

Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition
Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition

Author: Lawrence Lipking

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1988-09-15

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0226484548

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At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandonment, a woman forsaken and out of control. She appears in writings ancient and modern, in the East and the West, in high art and popular culture produced by women and by men. What accounts for her perennial fascination? What is her function—in poems and for writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities. In this figure he finds a partial record of women's experience, an instrument for the expression of religious love and yearning, a voice for psychological fears, and, finally, a model for the poet. Abandoned women inspire new ways of reading poems and poetic tradition.

Cantares
Cantares

Author: Fray Angelico Chavez

Publisher: Arte Publico Press

Published: 2000-11-30

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781611920840

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This collection contains poems composed during the years 1925 through 1932 and gathered privately by the poet Fray (or Friar) Angélico Chávez of New Mexico who gained wide renown as an artist and man of letters. Written in English (save for a handful composed in Latin and Spanish), these poems were grouped by Fray Angélico himself under the headings of Cantares de Cibola (verse on Southwestern themes); Cantares de María (poems about and to the Virgin Mary); Cantares Franciscanos (on St. Francis and the Franciscan order); and Cantares Varios (on diverse subjects, primarily religious but including, for example, a "Sonnet on Reading Macbeth" and the lyric "To a Diminutive Chickadee"). Longer works in the collection include "A Litany of Pueblos" and the six-part "Vignettes from the Life of Saint Anthony."

The Metaphysics of Love
The Metaphysics of Love

Author: Albert James Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1985-01-28

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0521259088

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The author presents a wide-ranging account of the evolution of ideas of love from the twelfth to the seventeenth century.