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Author Soud, William David, 1966-

Title Divine cartographies : God, history and 'Poiesis' in W.B. Yeats, David Jones, and T.S. Eliot / W. David Soud
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Series Oxford English Monographs
Oxford English monographs.
Contents Cover ; Divine Cartographies: God, History, and Poiesis in W.B. Yeats, David Jones, and T.S. Eliot ; Copyright ; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; General Introduction; Secularization and the Sacred; Liberal Protestantism; The Mystical Revival; Theosophy; The Nature of the Subject; Late Modernism and the Terror of History; Theology and Difficulty; 1: The Divine Self at Play: History and Liberation in the Late Poems of W.B. Yeats; The Encounter with Purohit; Yeatsś Studies with Purohit; The Philosophy of the Yoga Sutras; Yeatsś Reading of the Yoga Sutras; ̀Long-legged Fly ́and Yoga
The Appeal of TantraTowards A Vision B; Eternity and Time in A Vision B; ̀Vacillation;́ ̀Meru;́ ̀The Gyres;́ ̀Lapis Lazuli;́ An Incomplete Vision; 2: The Figureand the Map: The Anathemata of David Jones; Intellectual Backgrounds; From Sacramental Theology to Sacramental Poetics; Jones and Mysticism; The Form of The Anathemata; Poetic Agency in The Anathemata; 3: The Dialectical Poetics of Four Quartets; Eliot and the Ascendancy of Barth; Contexts: Barth, Eliot, and Liberal Protestantism; Theologies of Immanence and Transcendence; From Theology to Poetics
The Rose Garden in ̀Burnt Norton:́ From Vision to DialecticThe Fall into History; From the Moment to Incarnation; The Moment and Christian Praxis; Afterword; Bibliography; I. PUBLISHED PRIMARY SOURCES ; II. MANUSCRIPTS AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS ; III. SECONDARY SOURCES ; Index
Summary Recent critical studies of late modernism have explored the changing sense of both history and artistic possibility that emerged in the years surrounding World War II. However, relatively little attention has been devoted to the impact of poets' theological deliberations on their visions of history and their poetic strategies. 'Divine Cartographies: God, History, and Poiesis in W.B. Yeats, David Jones, and T.S. Eliot' triangulates key texts as attempts to map theologically driven visions of the relation between history and eternity. W. David Soud considers several poems of Yeats's final and most fruitful engagement with Indic traditions, Jones's The Anathemata, and Eliot's Four Quartets. For these three poets, working at the height of their powers, that project was inseparable from reflection on the relation between the individual self and God; it was also bound up with questions of theodicy, subjectivity, and the task of the poet in the midst of historical trauma. Drawing on the fields of Indology, theology, and history of religions as well as literary criticism, Soud explores in depth and detail how, in these texts, theology is poetics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation
Jones, David, 1895-1974 -- Criticism and interpretation
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 fast
Jones, David, 1895-1974 fast
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 fast
Subject Religion in literature.
Religion in literature
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191823213
019182321X