Poetry and Revelation

For a Phenomenology of Religious Poetry

By: Kevin Hart

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Hardcover | 20 April 2017 | Edition Number 1

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Religious poetry has often been regarded as minor poetry and dismissed in large part because poetry is taken to require direct experience; whereas religious poetry is taken to be based on faith, that is, on second or third hand experience. The best methods of thinking about "experience" are given to us by phenomenology. Poetry and Revelation is the first study of religious poetry through a phenomenological lens, one that works with the distinction between manifestation (in which everything is made manifest) and revelation (in which the mystery is re-veiled as well as revealed). Providing a phenomenological investigation of a wide range of "religious poemsâ ?, some medieval, some modern; some written in English, others written in European languages; some from America, some from Britain, and some from Australia, Kevin Hart provides a unique new way of thinking about religious poetry and the nature of revelation itself.

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Poetry and Revelation, a profound investigation into the relationship between poetry and religion, gives me a new vision of the Australian poet-critic Kevin Hart. One need not agree with his arguments. I for one do not. But that does not matter. In a long lifetime of trying to understand the vexed relationship between the imagination and revelation, I have arrived at the judgment that they are antithetical to one another. Hart argues the reverse. He does it with surpassing love for poetry, and with a poignant personal experience of Christian inwardness. His readings of Hopkins, Geoffrey Hill, Charles Wright, and of the Australian poets A.D. Hope, Judith Wright, and Robert Gray are fresh and invigorating. He is equally perceptive on the poetry of Jaccottet and Montale. Hart breaks new ground for all of us.

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