Poetry and the Sacred

achievement Ahab Ash-Wednesday Auden becomes Blake Blake's Burnt Norton Byzantium celebration chapters Christian completely concept concern Crazy Jane created creative critics death define doctrinal Donne Donne's doubt dramatic dramatise earlier East Coker echo effect Eliade Eliot emotional established example experience fact feeling forces Four Quartets Herbert heroic hierophany Holy human images imagination impulse innocence interest Ishmael kind literary Little Gidding living lyric meaning meditation Melville merely metaphysical Moby Dick movement mysterious nature paradox passages passion pattern perception perhaps poem poem's poet poet's poetic present profane prose Psalms question religion religious poetry remarkable revealed rhythm Roethke sacred salvation Satire seems sense soul speak spirit stanza suggest symbol T. S. Eliot themes thing thou tion tone transcend vision voice W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden Waste Land white whale whole word Wordsworth Wyatt Yeats Yvor Winters