Poetry and Prophecy
Title | Poetry and Prophecy PDF eBook |
Author | N. Kershaw Chadwick |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 143 |
Release | 2011-06-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1107689511 |
This 1952 book is an inquiry into the relations in origin between literature and inspiration, based on a study of the practices of seers in modern communities where oral literature sill survives, and of the records of primitive poetry in the West and North. Mrs Chadwick discusses the universal reverence accorded to poets, musicians, seers, or prophets, the training they underwent, the methods of ecstasy, and the remarkable similarities of their messages in remote and different parts of the world.
Poetry and Prophecy
Title | Poetry and Prophecy PDF eBook |
Author | James L. Kugel |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780801495687 |
Europe A Prophecy (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)
Title | Europe A Prophecy (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake) PDF eBook |
Author | William Blake |
Publisher | e-artnow |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2013-08-20 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 8074844102 |
This carefully crafted ebook: "Europe A Prophecy (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Blake's illuminated books, produced from 1783-1795, are remarkable examples of complex syntheses: of form - poetry and painting; and of subject - the real with the mythical. Blake created his own mythological creations to populate his poems and paintings: concepts and ideas became personified into universal representations. He used these mythological characters to explain and act out his singular view of history. Blake divided the nature of man into four personified elements: "Los, the imagination and eventual source of redemption; Urizen, the reason and vengeful Jehovah of the Old Testament as opposed to the merciful Christ of the New; Luvah, the senses; and Tharmas, the emotions". Each of these characters has an emanation, or female "offshoot", who is commonly a negative character attempting to dominate her male counterpart. "William Blake (1757 – 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.
Poetry and Prophecy
Title | Poetry and Prophecy PDF eBook |
Author | Reuven Shoham |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2021-10-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004501355 |
The book discusses the image of the prophet and the role of prophecy in Modern Hebrew Poetry. The first part of the book presents the prophetic archetypal biographies of prophets, heroes and artists in Hebrew and European mythologies. It also examines the historical facts which lead to the departure of the prophet from Hebrew literature following the destruction of the second temple. Finally, it addresses the necessity of reappearance of the prophet in the 18th and 19th centuries in Hebrew thought and literature and provides a short history of that reappearance in Haskala literature. The second part focuses upon three major “prophets poets”: Haim N. Bialik, Avraham Shlonski and Uri Z. Greenberg. The book may be of interest to scholars of Literature, Judaism, Philosophy, Science of Religion, Anthropology, Folklore and Rhetoric.
Chinese Poetry and Prophecy
Title | Chinese Poetry and Prophecy PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Strickmann |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780804743341 |
This book argues that the most profound and far-reaching effects of Buddhism on Chinese culture occurred at the level of practice, specifically in religious rituals designed to cure people of disease, demonic possession, and bad luck. This practice would leave its most lasting imprint on the liturgical tradition of Taoism. In focusing on religious practice, the book provides a corrective to traditional studies of Chinese religion, which overemphasize metaphysics and spirituality.
Prophecy, Poetry and Hosea
Title | Prophecy, Poetry and Hosea PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Morris |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1996-05-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567280667 |
The books of the Latter Prophets have traditionally been treated as persuasive speeches, and interpreted according to their rhetoric. At the same time, interpreters recognize the poetic form of much prophecy. This study takes up the notion of the 'prophet' as 'poet', focusing on word-play in Hosea and on the lyrical plot of that book; the case is made for treating Hosea as a stark, full-length poem of inexhaustible power.
The Prophetic Imagination
Title | The Prophetic Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Brueggemann |
Publisher | Fortress Press |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780800632878 |
In this challenging and enlightening treatment, Brueggemann traces the lines from the radical vision of Moses to the solidification of royal power in Solomon to the prophetic critique of that power with a new vision of freedom in the prophets. Here he traces the broad sweep from Exodus to Kings to Jeremiah to Jesus. He highlights that the prophetic vision and not only embraces the pain of the people but creates an energy and amazement based on the new thing that God is doing. In this new edition, Brueggemann has completely revised the text, updated the notes, and added a new preface.