4311 Lecture
Introduction Introductory Issues & Questions

Definitions & Characteristics of Modernity

Characteristics of Modern Verse

Four Models of Personhood

Notes Toward A Theology of Poetry

T. S. Eliot Life of T.S. Eliot (website)

Eliot on Tradition, Poetry, Faith, and Culture

Choruses from "The Rock": Introduction & Overview

Ash Wednesday

Thomas' Temptations

Study Questions for Idea of a Christian Society

Christian Spirituality in The Cocktail Party

The Structure of The Four Quartets

Burnt Norton Commentary

East Coker Commentary

The Dry Salvages Commentary

Little Gidding Commentary

Tradition and Eternity in Little Gidding

W. H. Auden "Auden and the Limits of Poetry" by Alan Jacobs

Love and Desire

Poems of History

Four Poems on Encountering God

For the Time Being

The Meditation of Simeon: An Outline

Horae Canonicae

Thanksgiving for a Habitat

Poems of Hard-Won Wisdom

Les Murray Les Murray's Homepage

Introduction to Murray

Selected Quotations

Poetic of Dreaming, Embodiment, and Conscience

Embodied Concepts and Grace

The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle

Murray and Modernity

Six Poems on Christian Faith

"How Fred and I Wrote Fredy Neptune"

An Introduction to and Outline of Fredy Neptune

A 20th Century Theodicy

Previous Semesters

John Berryman Life of John Berryman (website)

"Disrupted & Mended"

Denise Levertov Organic Form and a Theology of Presence/Absence

Material for Section II

Material for Sections II and IV

"All manner of thing shall be well/ When the tongues of flame are in-folded/ Into the crowned knot of fire/ And the fire and the rose are one." -- T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding