Author | : Malcolm Guite |
File Size | : 49,8 Mb |
Publisher | : Canterbury Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 31 August 2015 |
ISBN | : 9781848258006 |
Pages | : 176 pages |
Waiting on the Word by Malcolm Guite Book PDF Summary
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.