Hearing God in Poetry: Fifty Poems for Lent and Easter

From Yehuda Amichai and W. H. Auden to Phyllis Wheatley and Walt Whitman, Hearing God in Poetry...
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Author: Richard Harries
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Hearing God in Poetry: Fifty Poems for Lent and Easter by Harries, Richard

Hearing God in Poetry: Fifty Poems for Lent and Easter

$57.95

Hearing God in Poetry: Fifty Poems for Lent and Easter

$57.95
Author: Richard Harries
Format: Paperback
Language: English

From Yehuda Amichai and W. H. Auden to Phyllis Wheatley and Walt Whitman, Hearing God in Poetry invites you to take a closer look at fifty great poems by some of the finest poets in the English language. Some are well known, some deserve to be better known, but all say something distinctive that will lift your spirit.

This beautiful Lent book for 2022 offers six poems for every week from Ash Wednesday, leading up to Holy Week, with ten poems specially chosen for Easter. A short reflection from Richard Harries accompanies each poet and the poem, drawing out their spiritual insights and how they communicate God's presence.

Hearing God in Poetry is an ideal Lent book for 2022 for poetry lovers and anyone interested in how some of the world's finest poets have expressed faith in their work. This book of daily readings will introduce you to some wonderful poetry for Lent and Easter, and give you a deeper understanding and appreciation of these brilliant works of literature. It will also help expand your spirituality to see God's presence in the world around you as you prepare for Easter.

Full of riches, Hearing God in Poetry is a book that you will want to turn to time and time again - whether during Lent or in any other season of the year.

Author: Richard Harries
Publisher: SPCK Publishing
Published: 11/18/2021
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9780281086290

About the Author

Richard Harries is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. After nineteen years as Bishop of Oxford he was made a Life Peer (Lord Harries of Pentregarth) and he remains active in the House of Lords on human rights issues. He is Emeritus Gresham Professor of Divinity and a Visiting Professor of Theology at King's College, London, where he was formerly Dean. His voice is well known to many through his regular contributions to the Today programme.

Among his many critically acclaimed books are Seeing God in Art (2020), Haunted by Christ (2018), The Beauty and the Horror (2016), The Re-enchantment of Morality (2008), shortlisted for the Michael Ramsey Prize, and Art and the Beauty of God (1993), selected as book of the year by Anthony Burgess in The Observer.


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