Modern Poetry Resources
Introduction Introduction to Modern & Contemporary Christian Poetry

Characteristics of High Modernist Verse

T. S. Eliot

Reading The Waste Land

T.S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday: Conversion & the Transcendent

Murder in the Cathedral Four Orders

The Rock Its Basic Sturcture

Choruses from "The Rock": Introduction & Overview

Study Questions for The Idea of a Christian Society

Eliot of Tradition, Poetry, Faith, and Culture

"Burnt Norton" Commentary

"East Coker" Commentary

"The Dry Salvages" Commentary

"Little Gidding" Commentary

The Structure of The Four Quartets

Tradition and Eternity in Little Gidding

Christian Spirituality in The Cocktail Party

High Farce and New Comedy in The Confidential Clerk

The Curse and Its Expiation in The Family Reunion

Forgiveness and Family in The Elder Statesman

W. H. Auden

Auden in the Late 30s Four Poems about Brussels

Auden in the Late 30s Five Sonnets on Artists

Overview of The Virgin and the Dynamo

Sonnets from China and War

New Year Letter Auden and His Transition Back to the Christian Faith

Four Poems on Encountering God

Auden's Struggle with Love and Desire

Auden's For the Time Being--The Word Made Flesh & The World in Darkness

Auden's The Meditation of Simeon: An Outline

Auden's Horae Canonicae: The Sacrificed One's Triumph & Our Contrition

Auden's Poems of History

Auden's Celebration of Home--Thanksgiving for a Habitat

Les Murray Six Poems by Les Murray on Christian Faith

Murray & Modernity

The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle:Organizing Patterns and Organic Beauty

Embodied Concepts & Grace in Les Murray's Poetry

Les Murray, Selected Quotations

Les Murray's Poetic of Dreaming, Embodiment, and Conscience

Fredy Neptune: An Introduction and Overview

Fredy Neptune: A 20th Century Theodicy

Denise Levertov Levertov's Organic Form and a Theology of Presence/Absence

Levertov's The Stream and the Sapphire section II, "Believers"

Sections III & IV of Denise Levertov's The Stream & the Sapphire

John Berryman "Disrupted and Mended": Berryman’s Style & His New-Found Faith (Yet Still Doubt)
 

"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