GODS SPIES: MICHELANGELO SHAKESPEARE AND OTHER POETS OF VISION

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Paul Murray is an Irish Dominican and a poet. He works in Rome Italy where he teaches the literature of the mystical tradition at the Angelicum University.Examines the relationship between religion and poetryDiscusses the fascinating and profoundly moving drama of Michelangelos loves: divine and humanOffers theological engagement with Shakespeare Dante Peguy and MichelangeloPaul Murray OP teaches the literature of the mystical tradition at the Angelicum University Rome Italy.Written with both passion and precision Gods Spies is a work that will be welcomed by anyone interested in the vital interplay between poetry and religion. The authors represented including poets such as Michelangelo St Francis of Assisi Charles Pęguy Dante and Shakespeare all possess one great and surprising quality in common: audacity. All of them in their work offer fresh and unforeseen perspectives on life and literature. Some of these authors are religious in the strict meaning of the word their work indicating a devout turning away from the distractions of the world to focus on God. Others in contrast are poets whose work is distinguished by a remarkable visionary focus on the many small and great dramas of life attending with bright imaginative genius to what Shakespeare calls śthe mystery of things.A study of individual poets of vision and of the vital interplay between poetry and religionAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Paradise on Earth: Early Irish Nature Poetry and the Canticle of Francis of AssisiChapter 2: śI am Myself Alone: Shakespeare and the Human CasualtyChapter 3: A Man Talking: The Prayer and Poetry of Charles PęguyChapter 4: śBeauty my Enemy: Passion and Piety at War in the Poetry of MichelangeloChapter 5: Apocalyptic Visions: The Poetry of Nature and the CrossChapter 6: Gods Spy: Shakespeare and Religious VisionChapter 7: At the Threshold of Wonder: Poetry and Religion Friends or Foes?Finally Comes the Poet: AfterwordGods Spies was exactly the book I had long been craving. Paul Murray has written a brilliant cosmopolitan and compelling study of the visionary tradition in Western literature that left me joyous and grateful. I found something to ponder and admire on nearly every page as he explored the spiritual imagination of Shakespeare Dante Michelangelo St. Francis and other visionaries. Gods Spies is immensely learned but also so lucid and wellpaced as to be irresistible. It is thrilling to read literary criticism so full of both intellectual and spiritual energy.

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