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The Poet as Believer

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The Poet as Believer book

A Theological Study of Paul Claudel

The Poet as Believer

DOI link for The Poet as Believer

The Poet as Believer book

A Theological Study of Paul Claudel
ByAidan Nichols, O.P.
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 24 February 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315554600
Pages 288 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315554600
SubjectsHumanities
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Nichols, A., O.P. (2011). The Poet as Believer. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315554600

This is the first comprehensive study of the theological significance of Paul Claudel, a poet frequently cited by literary-minded theologians in Europe and theologically-minded poets (such as von Balthasar, de Lubac and Eliot). His writing combines cosmology and history, Bible and metaphysics, liturgy and the drama of human personality. His work, which continues to arouse discussion in France, was acclaimed in his lifetime as the 'summa poetica' of a new Dante. Aidan Nichols' study demonstrates how Claudel's oeuvre, which is not only poetry but theatre and prose including biblical commentaries, constitutes a rich resource for constructive doctrine, liturgical preaching, and theological reflection. As the comparable example of Geoffrey Hill, Professor of Poetry at Oxford suggests, Aidan Nichols illuminates how Claudel's synthesis of many dimensions remains an important way of practising poetry in the Christian tradition today.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|18 pages

Claudel’s Way

chapter 2|28 pages

The Five Great Odes

chapter 3|19 pages

The Treatises

chapter 4|22 pages

The Mass

chapter 5|23 pages

The Temporal Cycle, from Christmas to Good Friday

chapter 6|16 pages

The Temporal Cycle, from Easter to Christ the King

chapter 7|41 pages

The Sanctoral Cycle

chapter 8|23 pages

The Mother of the Lord

chapter 9|34 pages

The Bible Commented

chapter 10|35 pages

A Glimpse of the Theatre

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