Waiting on the Word
Author | : Malcolm Guite |
Publisher | : Canterbury Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2015-08-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781848258006 |
ISBN-13 | : 1848258003 |
Rating | : 4/5 (003 Downloads) |
Download or read book Waiting on the Word written by Malcolm Guite and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. A scholar of poetry as well as a renowned poet himself, his knowledge is deep and wide and he offers readers a soul-food feast for Advent. Among the classic writers he includes are: George Herbert, John Donne, Milton, Tennyson,and Christina Rossetti,as well as contemporary poets like Scott Cairns, Luci Shaw, and Grevel Lindop. He also includes a selection of his own highly praised work.