Author : Malcolm Guite
Release : 2015-08-31
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 003/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Waiting on the Word by : Malcolm Guite
Download or read book Waiting on the Word written by Malcolm Guite. This book was released on 2015-08-31. 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.