The Bible and Literature A Reader

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ISBN: 9780631208570 | 0631208577
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Copyright: 11/28/2007

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There is no book more important for our culture than the Bible, and it is fundamental to the study of English literature and language. But the Bible is actually little read and its resonances in poetry, plays, and fiction are becoming forgotten and lost. This book is designed primarily, though not exclusively, for students of English, giving a collection of some of the most important passages from the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, with introductions and commentaries, and selections of texts from literature which use and incorporate these passages in different ways. It explores how closely the Bible is linked with some of the great imaginative literature in English, beginning with the creation stories in Genesis and moving through to the visions of the End in Revelation. There are extensive introductory essays and full reading lists.

Preface

Acknowledgements

xiii

General Introduction

(11)

Biblical and Literary Criticism: A History of Interaction

(32)

Stephen Prickett

Literary Readings of the Bible: Trends in Modern Criticism

(21)

David Jasper

The Creation (Genesis 1-2):

(15)

Paradise Lost

(1)

John Milton

`The Spacious Firmament on High'

(1)

Joseph Addison

Biographia Literaria

(1)

S. T. Coleridge

Choruses from `The Rock'

(2)

T. S. Eliot

`Let There Be Light!'

(1)

D. H. Lawrence

The Magician's Nephew

(3)

C. S. Lewis

In the Beginning Was the Word (John 1: 1-18):

(14)

Apology

(1)

Justin Martyr

Holy Sonnets, No. 4

(1)

John Donne

Lectures on Revealed Religion

(1)

S. T. Coleridge

Faust, Part 1

(1)

Goethe

The Morgante Maggiore

(1)

Lord Byron

`A Word Made Flesh Is Seldom'

(1)

Emily Dickinson

`In the Beginning Was the Three-pinted Star'

(1)

Dylan Thomas

Of Grammatology

(4)

Jacques Derrida

The Fall (Genesis 3: 1-13):

(16)

The City of God

101

(1)

St Augustine

Bondage

101

(1)

Adam Lay

Paradise Lost

102

(3)

John Milton

Earl of Rochester, `The Fall'

105

(1)

John Wilmot

`The Tree of Knowledge'

106

(1)

Abraham Cowley

Free Fall

107

(3)

William Golding

The Sacrifice of Isacc (Genesis 22: 1-19):

110

(13)

Pentateuch with Targum Onkelos, Haphtaroth and Rashi's Commentary

114

(1)

Epistle to the Hebrews

114

(1)

The City of God

114

(2)

St Augustine

Fourteenth-century English Passion Play

116

(2)

Religio Medici

118

(1)

Sir Thomas Browne

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

118

(1)

Thomas Hardy

Fear and Trembling

118

(1)

Soren Kierkegaard

Letter of 1921

119

(1)

Franz Kafka

`The Parable of the Old Man and the Young'

120

(1)

Wilfred Owen

`England, my England'

120

(1)

D. H. Lawrence

Mimesis

120

(3)

Erich Auerbach

Jacob and Esau (Genesis 27: 15-35):

123

(11)

The City of God

129

(1)

St Augustine

Holy Sonnets, No. 11

130

(1)

John Donne

`On Jacob's Purchase'

130

(1)

Francis Quarles

The Christian Year

131

(1)

John Keble

Joseph and his Brothers

131

(1)

Thomas Mann

Midnight's Children

132

(2)

Salman Rushdie

Wrestling Jacob (Genesis 32: 22-31):

134

(13)

The Life of John Donne

138

(1)

Izaak Walton

`Wrestling Jacob'

138

(2)

Charles Wesley

`Jacob Wrestling with the Angel'

140

(1)

Jones Very

`Carrion Comfort'

141

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

`A Little East of Jordan'

141

(1)

Emily Dickinson

`Weeping We Hold Him Fast Tonight'

142

(1)

Christina Rossetti

`The Struggle with the Angel'

142

(3)

Roland Barthes

Son of Laughter

145

(2)

Frederick Buechner

David and Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11: 1-27):

147

(12)

The Gospel According to St Matthew

153

(1)

The Love of King David and Fair Bathsabe

153

(1)

George Peele

The Prologue to Penitential Psalms

153

(2)

Sir Thomas Wyatt

Absalom and Achitophel

155

(1)

John Dryden

Far From the Madding Crowd

155

(1)

Thomas Hardy

The Scarlet Letter

156

(1)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

God Knows

156

(1)

Joseph Heller

Bathsheba

157

(2)

Torgny Lindgren

The Still Small Voice (1 Kings 19: 8-13):

159

(5)

The Divine Comedy, `Purgatory'

162

(1)

Dante

St John of the Cross `Living Flame of Love'

162

(1)

The Christian Year

162

(1)

John Keble

`Dear Lord and Father of Mankind'

162

(1)

John greenleaf Whittier

`The Surrender of a Cockney'

163

(1)

G. K. Chesterton

`A Successful Summer'

163

(1)

David Schubert

The Lord Is My Shepherd (Psalm 23):

164

(16)

`The Twenty Third Psalm'

168

(1)

Miles Coverdale

`Psalm 23'

169

(1)

Thomas Sternhold

Henry V

169

(1)

William Shakespeare

`Psalm 23'

170

(1)

George Herbert

`Psalm 23'

170

(2)

Richard Crashaw

The Pilgrim's Progress

172

(2)

John Bunyan

`Psalm 23'

174

(1)

Henry Williams Baker

God Knows

175

(1)

Joseph Heller

The Very Model of a Man

176

(1)

Howard Jacobson

`Psalms'

176

(4)

John Hollander

I Am a Rose of Sharon (The Song of Songs):

180

(23)

The Fire of Love

191

(1)

Richard Rolle

`In the Vale of Restless Mind'

192

(1)

The Canterbury Tales

193

(1)

Geoffrey Chaucer

Colin Clouts Come Home Againe

193

(1)

Edmund Spenser

The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce; The Reason of Church Government; Paradise Lost

194

(2)

John Milton

`The Garden'

196

(2)

Andrew Marvell

`In the Glorious Assumption of Our Blessed Lady'

198

(2)

Richard Crashaw

`The Reflexion'

200

(1)

Edward Taylor

The Name of the Rose

201

(2)

Umberto Eco

The Nativity (Matthew 2: 1-12; Luke 2: 1-19):

203

(18)

`I Sing of a Maiden'

208

(1)

Holy Sonnets, No. 3

209

(1)

John Donne

`Anagram'

209

(1)

George Herbert

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

210

(3)

John Milton

`Let Earth and Heaven Combine'

213

(1)

Charles Wesley

`A Christmas Carol'

214

(1)

S. T. Coleridge

`A Christmas Carol: The Oxen'

215

(1)

Thomas Hardy

'Ave Maria Gratia Plena'

216

(1)

Oscar Wilde

`I Saw a Stable'

216

(1)

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

`Mary and Gabriel'

216

(2)

Rupert Brooke

`The Journey of the Magi'

218

(1)

T. S. Eliot

`The Annunciation'

219

(2)

Edwin Muir

The Problem of the Parables (Mark 4: 1-20):

221

(19)

The Genesis of Secrecy

227

(1)

Frank Kermode

Isaiah 6: 9-13

228

(1)

The Gospel of Thomas

229

(1)

The Rabbinic Parable, Midrash Wayyikra Rabbah

229

(1)

The Canterbury Tales

230

(1)

Geoffrey Chaucer

Sonnet XVIII

230

(1)

John Milton

The Pilgrim's Progress

231

(1)

John Bunyan

The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

231

(3)

Christopher Smart

`The Sower'

234

(1)

William Cowper

`Either/Or'

234

(1)

Soren Kierkegaard

`A Grammarian's Funeral'

235

(1)

Robert Browning

The Mayor of Casterbridge

235

(1)

Thomas Hardy

The Trial

235

(2)

Franz Kafka

The Violent Bear it Away

237

(1)

Flannery O'Connor

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

238

(2)

Jorge Luis Borges

Jesus and the Samaritan Woman (John 4: 1-30):

240

(15)

Genesis 24: 10-14

245

(1)

The Canterbury Tales

245

(1)

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Faerie Queen

246

(1)

Edmund Spenser

Silex Scintillans

247

(1)

Henry Vaughan

The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

248

(3)

Christopher Smart

`I Know Where Wells Grow - Droughtless Wells'

251

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Unto This Last

252

(1)

John Ruskin

Man and Superman

252

(1)

George Bernard Shaw

Jeshua

253

(1)

Moelwyn Merchant

The Last Temptation

253

(2)

Nikos Kazantzakis

The Prodigal Son (Luke 15: 11-32):

255

(13)

The Canterbury Tales

260

(1)

Geoffrey Chaucer

`The Prodigal Son'

260

(1)

John Newton

The Excursion

261

(3)

William Wordsworth

`A Prodigal Son'

264

(1)

Christina Rossetti

`The Lake Isle of Innisfree'

264

(1)

W. B. Yeats

`The Prodigal Son'

265

(1)

Robert Bly

`The Prodigal'

265

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop

The Return of the Prodigal Son

266

(2)

Henri J. M. Nouwen

The Crucifixion (Mark 15: 33-39):

268

(17)

The Dream of the Rood

273

(3)

Stabat Mater Dolorosa

276

(2)

`Colphizacio', from The Wakefield Pageants

278

(1)

Holy Sonnets, No. 5

279

(1)

John Donne

`Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ'

279

(1)

Isaac Watts

Billy Budd, Sailor

280

(2)

Herman Melville

`At a Calvary near the Ancre'

282

(1)

Wilfred Owen

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

282

(1)

James Joyce

`Canticle for Good Friday'

283

(1)

Geoffrey Hill

God's Gym: Divine Male Bodies of the Bible

283

(2)

Stephen D. Moore

Jesus and Mary in the Garden (John 20: 18-18):

285

(13)

The Book of the Resurrection of Christ by Bartholomew the Apostle

289

(1)

St Anselm The Prayers and Meditations

290

(3)

`Who So List to Hunt I Know Where Is an Hind'

293

(1)

Sir Thomas Wyatt

`Mary Magdalen's Complaint at Christ's Death'

293

(2)

Robert Southwell

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

295

(1)

Tobias Smollett

St. Mawr

295

(1)

D. H. Lawrence

The Wild Girl

296

(2)

Michele Roberts

The Conversion of St Paul (Acts 9: 1-19)

298

(16)

`The Rebel's Surrender to Grace'

303

(1)

John Newton

The Confessions of a Justified Sinner

304

(1)

James Hogg

Father and Son

305

(1)

Edmund Gosse

The Wreck of the Deutschland

306

(2)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

`The Hound of Heaven'

308

(4)

Francis Thompson

Memoirs of the Blind

312

(2)

Jacques Derrida

Alpha and Omega (Revelation 21: 1-18)

314

(13)

Cathemerinon

318

(1)

Prudentius Aurelius Clemens

'In Dulci Jubilo'

318

(1)

Paradise Lost

318

(1)

John Milton

The Pilgrim's Progress

319

(1)

John Bunyan

The Prelude

320

(1)

William Wordsworth

Jane Eyre

320

(1)

Charlotte Bronte

`The Last Chantey'

321

(2)

Rudyard Kipling

`An Ordinary Evening in New Haven'

323

(1)

Wallace Stevens

`Victor'

323

(1)

W. H. Auden

Everything That Rises Must Converge

324

(3)

Flannery O'Connor

General Bibliography

327

(2)

Name Index

329

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The Bible and Literature A Reader

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