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Poetry and Revelation ALSO AVAILABLE FROM BLOOMSBURY Beckett’s Words, David Kleinberg-Levin Kierkegaard’s Religious Discourses, David J. Kangas The Ethics of Time, John Panteleimon Manoussakis Poetry and Revelation For a Phenomenology of Religious Poetry KEVIN HART Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2017 © Kevin Hart, 2017 Kevin Hart has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. 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Typeset by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk, NR21 8NN Printed and bound in Great Britain For Sarah Hart vi Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi PART ONE Experience 1 Poetry and revelation: Hopkins, counter-experience, and reductio 3 2 “For the life was manifested”: On “material spirit” in Hopkins 21 3 Eliot’s rose-garden: Some phenomenology and theology in “Burnt Norton” 41 PART TWO On Geoffrey Hill 4 God’s little mountains: Young Geoffrey Hill and the problem of religious poetry 63 5 “it / is true” 77 6 Transcendence in tears 93 7 Uncommon equivocation in Geoffrey Hill 113 PART THREE Three Australian poets 8 Susannah without the cherub 125 9 Darkness and lostness: How to read a poem by Judith Wright 141 10 “Only this”: Some phenomenology and religion in Robert Gray 151 viii CONTENTS PART FOUR Religio Poetæ 11 A voice answering a voice: Philippe Jaccottet and the “Dream of God” 175 12 Eugenio Montale and “the other truth” 189 13 “La poesia è scala a dio”: On Charles Wright’s “belief beyond belief” 205 PART FIVE Morning knowledge 14 Contemplation and concretion: Four Marian lyrics 227 15 Ambassadors and votaries of silence 243 Notes 265 Index 325 Acknowledgments Earlier versions of some of these chapters have appeared in various journals and edited collections. My thanks to the editors for allowing them their first lives elsewhere: a version of Chapter 1 was published in Pacifica: Australian Theological Studies 18 (2005): 259–80; Chapter 2 has been revised from its initial appearance in Material Spirit, edited by Carl Good (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012); a version of Chapter 3 appeared in Christianity and Literature, 64: 3 (2015); most of Chapter 4 was included in Sacred Worlds: Religion, Literature, and the Imagination, edited by Mark Knight and Louise Lee (Continuum, 2009), 23–36; an early version of Chapter 5 was published in Studia Phaenomenologica 8 (2008): 219–39; Chapter 6, now recast, first appeared in Gazing through a Prism Darkly, edited by Keith Putt (Fordham University Press, 2009), 116–38; almost all of Chapter 7 was included in a discussion of Geoffrey Hill in Religion and the Arts 16 (2012): 563–74; a version of Chapter 8 was published in Southerly 71 (3) (2012): 76–97; Chapter 9 has been lightly revised from a talk that was included in Imagining Australia, edited by Judith Ryan and Chris Wallace-Crabbe (Harvard University Press, 2004), 305–19; an earlier draft of Chapter 10 appeared in Southerly 69 (2) (2009): 17–49; Chapter 11 has been expanded from a short piece in Verse 24 (1–3) (2007): 240–53; Chapter 12 has been revised from a long review that appeared in Heat 14 (2000): 166–82; and Chapter 13 was published, in a shorter version, in Religion and the Arts 8 (2) (2004): 174–99, and has been brought up to date with the poet’s more recent works. All the other chapters appear here for the first time. Chapter 3 was read in French translation at a conference at the Institut Catholique de Paris in February, 2012, and Chapter 15 was read at a conference held at Wayne State University in October, 2007. My thanks to all my editors and hosts. Many friends have read these chapters at different stages of their compo- sition, and I am indebted to them for their criticisms and suggestions. In particular, I would like to thank Harold Bloom, Larry Bouchard, Gerald L. Bruns, Stephen Cushman, Jacques Derrida, Alan Gould, Brad S. Gregory, Paul Groner, Geoffrey Hartman, Jean-Yves Lacoste, Claire Lyu, Paul Mariani, Charles Mathewes, Michael L. Morgan, John Nemec, Kate Rigby, Claude Romano, Kurtis Schaeffer, Michael A. Signer, Richard Strier, Alan Toumayan, Henry Weinfield, Siân White, and Robin Darling Young. I would also like to
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