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Poetic Prophecy in Western Literature. Ed. Jan Wojcik and Raymond-Jean Frontain. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1984. PN56.P744.P63 1984.
Contents
  • Preface

  • Introduction: The Prophet in the Poem

  • The Uncertain Success of Isaiah's Prophecy: A Poetical Reading
    Jan Wojcik

  • The Prophetic, the Apocalyptic, and the Study of Medieval Literature
    Richard Kenneth Emmerson

  • Jane Lead's Wisdom: Women and Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England
    Catherine F. Smith

  • The Riddle of Paradise Regained
    William Kerrigan

  • John Dryden's Interest in Prophecy
    Thomas F. Woods

  • The Poetry of the Rainbow: Milton and Newton among the Prophets
    Joseph Anthony Wittreich

  • Milton: Blake's Reading of Second Isaiah
    Donna S. Rix

  • Tradition for a Time of Crisis: Whitman's Prophetic Stance
    Dennis K. Renner

  • Twain: The Statements Was Interesting but Tough
    John E. Becker

  • Thomas Mann's Gentle Prophetic Voice
    Doris Sommer

  • Allen Ginsberg's Visions and the Growth of His Poetics of Prophecy
    Paul PortugÈs

  • Prophecy of Liberation: The Poetry of Ernesto Cardenal
    Edward Elias

  • Notes

  • Contributors

  • Index