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Devotional Poetry
HDS 2060

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Description

This course surveys the work of English and American lyric poets writing in the devotional mode, primarily from the Christian tradition, from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries. Poets include the English Metaphysicals (Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Traherne), John Milton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, R.S. Thomas, Denise Levertov, Franz Wright, Christian Wiman, Jericho Brown, Anya Silver, and others. Poems and poets are approached thematically rather than chronologically (for example, poems of praise, lamentation, doubt, etc.). Students will leave this course experienced in the discipline of reading deeply and with attention. New readers of poetry and projects that engage Arts of Ministry are welcome. This course is eligible for Episcopal/Anglican polity Art of Ministry.

School Harvard Divinity School
Credits 4
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Course Component Seminar
Instruction Mode In Person
Grading Basis HDS Student Option (LG/SUS/AUD)
MTS/ThM Area of Focus N/A
Arts of Ministry Denominational Polity
Religious Education and Spiritual Development
MDiv Histories, Theologies, and Practices Christianity
Language Course Type N/A
Language Taught N/A
MDiv Scriptural Interpretation N/A
Course Level N/A