Image for The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse

The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse

See all formats and editions

What is meant by 'Christian' verse? What must there be in a passage of verse that gives us the right to call it 'Christian'?

These are the questions discussed in Professor Davie's illuminating introduction and answered implicitly on every page of his collection of over 260 poems.

This well-loved anthology embraces everything from the Anglo-Saxon 'The Dream of the Rood' to the works of modern poets such as T.

S. Eliot, Sir John Betjeman, W. H. Auden, and John Berryman. Australian and American poetry appears alongside English, Anglo-Irish, Scottish, and Anglo-Welsh verse, and the book also includes a selection of congregational hymns.

Read More
Special order line: only available to educational & business accounts. Sign In
£25.49 Save 15.00%
RRP £29.99
Product Details
Oxford University Press
0192804863 / 9780192804860
Paperback / softback
24/07/2003
United Kingdom
English
368 p.
20 cm
general Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: 1981.