Jesus

This novel reflects both MR 's efforts to remove her own self from her writing, and the freedom and power she felt when she allowed herself, after all, to be present there again. In...

When FT embarked on her country-wide tour, she saw herself as undertaking a role with intense spiritual significance. She viewed herself as the female messiah or as the Saving Woman who brought life and salvation...

On 19 August 1834 she wrote to Douglas Cohen expressing the hope that I may soon rest in the kingdom of God through the merits of our crucified Saviour Jesus Christ and I beseech you...

The collection opens with A Call to Come to Christ, which engages in sacred parody of Christopher Marlowe 's well-known Come Live With Me and Be My Love. Melvill imagines not a lover...

She began this book out of an impulse to think about where I came from, both genetically and socio-historically. Keeping to her unalterable schedule of several hours reading a day, she did painstaking research...

First Fig (beginning My candle burns at both ends) had already been out for two years and had become Millay's signature text. Second Fig, like the volume's title, subverts a parable of Christ

The pamphlet focuses on the idea that socialism is best understood as a religious creed and practice. Its first half, written by KBG , employs a conversion narrative to express this perspective, while the second...

This retelling of the Biblical story of Christ 's crucifixion, draws a parallel between the political situation in Ireland and that in Jerusalem at the time of Christ.

Drawing on personal experience as a temperance worker, ESP developed the story of a temperance-oriented minister who tries to live like Christ in a fishing village where intemperance is rife. Embodying both religious and humanitarian...

This involvement with the Rising aftermath was a highly disturbing first-hand experience of war for EGB and Roper. It informed EGB's writing, including her volume of poetry Broken Glory. She believed that...

Jacob Schwartz published at the Ulysses Press two handsome limited editions by HHR , to catch the 1931 Christmas market. Her stories Mary Christina and The Life of Peterle Lüthy appeared in an edition of...

One of KT 's better known religious works is Miracle Plays: Our Lord 's Coming and Childhood, which appeared in both London and Chicago in 1895. The plays cover The Annunciation, The Visitation...

The first story in the volume, Wladislaw's Advent, explores decadent themes familiar to its original publication venue. It depicts an impoverished Polish artist living in the west end of Paris, and his encounter...

A number of poems in this volume express sympathy with the losses and failures of humanity, or address the passage of time. Several concern religious observance: among these are two poems both bearing the title...

St Agatha's is a rich urban parish lacking a minister; the supply or temporary preacher assigned to them, an old man in a poor rural parish, goes out in a blizzard to visit a sick...