CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: RELIGIOUS POETRY IN A SECULAR AGE
1. A MYSTICAL THEOLOGY OF ANGELIC DESPAIR: WRITING RELIGIOUS POETRY AND THE TRILOGY OF FRANK SAMPERI
2. ROBINSON JEFFERS, THE MAN FROM WHOM GOD HID EVERYTHING
3. SPIRITUAL OSMOSIS: ABSORBING THE INFLUENCE IN GEOFFREY HILL’S LATER POETRY
4. PROPHETIC FRUSTRATIONS: ROBERT DUNCAN’S TRIBUNALS
5. WHAT LIES BENEATH MY COPY OF ETERNITY? RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE IN THE POETRY OF LISSA WOLSAK
6. CATHOLICS: READING FANNY HOWE
7. ROBERT DUNCAN’S CELESTIAL HIERARCHY
8. THE LONG HUTHERED HAJJ: NATHANIEL MACKEY’S ESOTERICISM
9. APOCALYPTICISM: A WAY FORWARD FOR POETRY