Religious Poems, Selected
VariousProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019
Rating 2.8- Word count
- 208K words
- Chapters
- 21
Tags
English Originals Modern PoetryReligion Spiritual ComfortSpiritual MeditationReflective ReadingEnglish PoetryPoetic LanguageSacred ImagerySummary
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today. Religious Poems, Selected by Various. Author: Various. Language: English. Class: PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections. Release Date: Apr 10, 2017Editor's review
This book is an anthology of English religious poetry from Project Gutenberg, gathering short poems by various British and American poets on themes of faith, prayer, confession, praise, and eternity. It is not arranged around a single denominational stance; instead, it presents the diverse expressions of religious feeling in poetry: there are solemn hymn-like rhythms as well as introspective, whispered outpourings. For Chinese readers, the book's distinctive value lies in bypassing the usual public-domain fiction and coming directly into contact with the tradition of "writing faith" in English poetry. The poems are short and their language compressed, making the book suitable as quiet daily reading, one poem at a time, and also as an introductory sample for observing English poetic meter and religious imagery. One caveat: this edition is a public-domain electronic text without modern annotation, and some archaic spellings and biblical allusions will pose barriers to reading; it is best accompanied by a dictionary or introductory materials.Who it's for
A good fit for
- Poetry lovers who want to encounter English religious poetry but lack a systematic anthology
- Readers who need short English recitation material and prefer a quiet reading rhythm
- Researchers of religious culture interested in faith literature and the hymn tradition
Not a good fit for
- Beginners expecting a modern Chinese translation or detailed annotations
- Readers hoping for a complete single-poet collection or a systematic history of poetry
Reading tips
- Read selectively by religious theme, for example starting with praise and prayer, then moving to confession and meditation
- Read one or two poems a day, reciting aloud to feel the rhyme and rhythm; when encountering unfamiliar words, simply note them and keep going
- Choose one poem for repeated close reading, marking biblical imagery and emotional turns as material for writing
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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FAQ
Does this book have a Chinese translation or annotations?
According to the available information, this book is an English-language electronic text from Project Gutenberg, with no mention of a Chinese translation or modern annotations. Readers may wish to have an English-Chinese dictionary at hand and to draw on general knowledge of biblical names and allusions to aid comprehension.Why is religious poetry worth reading for ordinary readers?
Religious poetry compresses human questioning about the meaning of life, suffering, and consolation into short lines; even readers without a particular faith can feel the emotional intensity and beauty of language in it. It is a shortcut to understanding the English literary tradition.This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.
About the author
Various AuthorVarious is not a real person but a collective attribution used in book cataloging and databases for works with multiple authors, commonly applied to anthologies, compilations, or publications with too many contributors to list individually. On this Chinese book site, this attribution covers as many as 3,387 titles, spanning encyclopedic entries, historical documents, and trial records. Representative works include several volumes of the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the record of the trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Available public information is limited: nationality, birth and death dates, and common categories are not clearly recorded, making it difficult to summarize a unified writing style or personal biography. Readers should understand it as a cataloging convention rather than a single author.