| The Celebration of the Flesh Contributor(s): McGill, Arthur C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1606082981 ISBN-13: 9781606082980 Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers OUR PRICE: $24.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Literature & The Arts - Poetry | American - General |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.50 lbs) 190 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An enjoyment of the poet's art, as seen in the words of T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens. ""As a Protestant theologian,"" writes McGill in his preface, ""I have always been puzzled that within the Christian community, poetry is often used for its insight into our modern miseries, but that it is rarely enjoyed as poetry. This book seeks to redress the balance."" McGill focuses on three American poets--Eliot, Frost and Stevens--all of whom belong to the same poetic generation and thus provide a microcosm of poetry from this era. Influenced by Owen Barfield, John Crowe Ransom, and Cleanth Brooks, he identifies poetry with the fleshly aspect of experience, yet never as distinct from a spiritual aspect. ""In the kingdom of God, people are created with flesh, reconciled through flesh, and glorified as flesh. To hide from the flesh for the sake of the spirit is to miss the Christian life. It is this danger which gives special meaning to the enjoyment of poetry."" This experience of poetry, according to McGill, ""is always a healthy antidote to spiritual pride."" ""In The Celebration of Flesh, Arthur McGill contends that only in reading poetry as poetry--and he makes artful, provocative observations about what this means and what poetry is--can poetry yield true fruitfulness for the life of faith."" David Cain University of Mary Washington Arthur C. McGill (1926 -1980) was the Bussey Professor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School. A distinguished philosopher and theologian, he also taught at Amherst College, Wesleyan University, and Princeton University. |
Contributor Bio(s): McGill, Arthur C.: - Arthur C. McGill (1926 -1980) was the Bussey Professor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School. A distinguished philosopher and theologian, he also taught at Amherst College, Wesleyan University, and Princeton University. |