Poetry Does Theology: Chaucer, Grosseteste, and the Pearl-poet

by James Francis Rhodes and Jim Rhodes

Book Overview

What happens when poetry deals explicitly with a serious theological issue? In Poetry Does Theology, Jim Rhodes seeks one answer to that question by analyzing the symbiotic relationship that existed between theology and poetry in fourteenth-century England. He pays special attention to the narrative poems of Chaucer, Grosseteste, the Pearl-poet, the author of Saint Erkenwald, and Langland.

Rhodes shows that Chaucer and his contemporaries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268038708
• ISBN13: 9780268038700
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"