Parish of the Dead
This essay offers an introduction to the poetry of Peter Scupham. Through close readings of individual poems, I demonstrate the beauty and formal accomplishment of his work, and I argue that his poetry embodies his sense of a living Christian tradition, one that also inheres in the English landscape...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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In: |
Religion and the arts
Year: 2016, Volume: 20, Issue: 5, Pages: 637-662 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Scupham, Peter 1933-
/ Poetry
/ Christian literature
/ Past
/ Remembrance
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RelBib Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture |
Further subjects: | B
Peter Scupham
contemporary British poetry
Christianity
English landscape
English history
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Volltext (Verlag) |
Summary: | This essay offers an introduction to the poetry of Peter Scupham. Through close readings of individual poems, I demonstrate the beauty and formal accomplishment of his work, and I argue that his poetry embodies his sense of a living Christian tradition, one that also inheres in the English landscape. I further argue that this tradition connects the dead to the living, and the remote in time to more recent English history. The particular Christian ethos of Scupham’s poetry is one in which tradition, order, design, meaning, and essence are paramount. |
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ISSN: | 1568-5292 |
Contains: | In: Religion and the arts
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02005004 |