Jesus

The poem's third part reveals some of the sources of MDF 's radicalism by looking forward to Christ 's reign on earth, which will seize power from Antichrist as the revolutionaries in France have seized...

The first and longest story, also titled Sweetly Sings the Donkey, from the title of a children's song, takes place in a convalescent home run by nuns. Many of the characters are invalids, one...

The former essay began, Who and what is God, and whence his name? and the second ended, And so my idea of Jesus is that he was a Reformer, and has had a lot...

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...

This story delivers a terrific kick. It centres on an unnamed woman who grew up in an oppressively Christian household, kept miserable by the suffering of Christ , whom she calls the Hanged Man. She...

The essays in this volume date from 1977-1985 and cover a wide range of topics, including an autobiographical essay on Dyson's path to becoming a poet, an essay on Jesus , and a critical look...

Eliot wrote this work at the prompting of E. Martin Browne . The pageant was for the benefit of the Forty-Five Churches Fund , and took its title from the fact that Christ gave the...

The title piece, in Spenserian stanzas with an ababccdcc rhyme scheme, depicts Mary Magdalene being cajoled by Salome to seize the day. Mary, the poem's major speaker,                 weep[s] and moan[s]
  For wantonness of feasts and...

While the Bodleian Library copy is perfect, the copy at the University of Alberta has been misprinted in such a way as to shuffle early pages out of sequence. The title-page, list of contents, two...

She invokes her subject as More like Jesus Christ than anyone I ever knew by way of apology for adding to the number of biographies. She charts her husband's life from childhood to death...

This is the contentious core of the novel: that the seducer's sin of seduction is far graver than that of an innocent girl who lets herself be seduced. Ruth's faults are called venial errors...

The poems in pastoral form include religious meditations, hymns for Christmas, Easter, and other Christian festivals, love complaints, and addresses to abstracts such as Pride and Sincerity. Despair is a dramatic mini-narrative, beginning Moments on...

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...

EGB published her critical study entitled A Psychological and Poetic Approach to the Study of Christ in the Fourth Gospel.

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...