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Author McAuliffe, Angela T

Title Between the temple and the cave : the religious dimensions of the poetry of E.J. Pratt / Angela T. McAuliffe
Published Montreal, Quâe. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 250 pages)
Contents 1. "Up from Newfoundland": The Preacher in Search of the Poet -- 2. "The Good Lord" with "a Glittering Monocle": The Problem of God -- 3. "Ghosts of the Apocalypse" -- 4. "A Tendency to ... Fatalism Tempered with Humanity" -- 5. The Wheel Comes Full Circle: The Atoning Christ
Summary "Drawing on a wide variety of newly available source material, Angela McAuliffe examines the roots of E.J. Pratt's religious attitudes, including his strict Methodist upbringing in Newfoundland and his plans to enter the ministry. She explores Pratt's early prose and unpublished poetry, including his theses on demonology and Pauline eschatology and the unpublished poem "Clay," to trace the origins of religious ideas and motifs that occur in his later work." "McAuliffe focuses on key motifs in Pratt's poetry, such as his image of a distant and formidable God, his apocalyptic vision of the world, and his belief in determinism and fate. She concludes that the diversity of religious positions attributed to Pratt and the image of God that emerges from his poetry are facets of the ironic vision of a man of twentieth-century sensibility who wrestled with God and sought a medium of expression equal to his themes."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-244) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Pratt, E. J. (Edwin John), 1882-1964 -- Religion
SUBJECT Pratt, E. J. (Edwin John), 1882-1964 fast
Pratt, Edwin John -- Christentum. idsbb
Pratt, Edwin J. swd
Subject Religious poetry, Canadian -- History and criticism
Theology in literature.
God in literature.
POETRY -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Canadian.
God in literature
Religion
Religious poetry, Canadian
Theology in literature
Religion
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773568488
0773568484