Blowing Clover, Falling Rain

af W Travis Helms

The field of theopoetics explores the ways in which we ""make God"" (present)--particularly through language. This book explores questions of theopoetics as they relate to the central poetry of the American Sublime. It offers a fresh, theological engagement with what literary critic Harold Bloom terms the American religion (transcendentalism: Emerson''s homespun mysticism). Specifically, it seeks to rehabilitate Emerson''s concept of self-reliance from the charge of gross egoism, by situating it... (Læs mere)