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Faith, Hope and Poetry explores the poetic imagination as a way of knowing; a way of seeing reality more clearly. Presenting a series of critical appreciations of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, Malcolm Guite applies the insights of poetry to contemporary issues and the contribution poetry can make to our religious knowing and the way we 'do theology'. This book is not solely concerned with overtly religious poetry, but attends to the paradoxical ways in which the poetry of doubt and despair also enriches theology. Developing an original analysis and application of the poetic vision of Coleridge, Larkin and Seamus Heaney in the final chapters, Guite builds towards a substantial theology of imagination and provides unique insights into truth that complement and enrich more strictly rational ways of knowing. Readers of this book will return to their reading of poetry equipped with new insights and enthusiasm and will be challenged to integrate imaginative ways of knowing into their other academic and intellectual pursuits.
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'Malcolm Guite, in this wide-ranging and original study, helps us see how poetry is - if we let ourselves be drawn in and shaped by it - a means of making connections with the fundamental way things are, and so too a way of connecting with a God who is himself a pattern of 'connection' as Trinity, open to share the divine reality with created life. Here are materials for a profound theology of the imagination, developed in dialogue with writers both familiar and unfamiliar, beautifully combining close reading with wide horizons.' The Most Revd Dr Rowan Williams 'No one with an interest in the history of poetry inspired by the Christian Faith can fail to be impressed with this book. Malcolm Guite has offered us an immensely rich work, ranging from the 8th Century Dream of the Rood, to Seamus Heaney via Shakespeare, John Davies, John Donne and George Herbert, in which the truth-telling available only in poetry is brought into the service of mature theological vision. It is quite simply both astounding and outstanding.' The Rt Revd Professor Stephen Sykes 'Malcolm Guite has the rare gift of being able to open up the depths of poetry and theology together. He is alert to form, content and context, and above all to the nuances of poetic visions of God, the complexities of faith, and spiritual transformations.' David Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK 'To enter Malcolm Guite's Faith, Hope & Poetry is to discover a new continent with dazzling possibilities, a landscape where scholarship, vivid faith, word craft, imaginative insight, reflection and careful research are all available at a level that is revelatory to both academics and lay readers alike. Guite, not only an ordained Anglican priest but a poet and scholar of the highest order, invites us to this fresh feast - a summons that will widen our own worlds immeasurably.' Luci Shaw, Author, Harvesting Fog: Poems; Breath for the Bones: Art, Imagination, and Spirit 'For a lover of poetry

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Malcolm Guite is a poet, priest and academic living and working in Cambridge. His recent writings include ’What Do Christians Believe?' 2006, 'Poetry, Playfulness and Truth...’ a chapter on the theology of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest in Faithful Performances: Enacting Christian Tradition, ed. Trevor Hart and Stephen Guthrie Ashgate 2007 and six poems in Live Simply, 2008. His chapter on the poetry of CS Lewis appears in the Cambridge Companion to CS Lewis, 2010.

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LittleL
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is beautiful. This book is brilliant
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2015
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This book is beautiful. This book is brilliant.

Before I read this book, I did not know that I was stuck in a valley, able to see only my own little piece of time and space, thoroughly isolated by the ideas of my own time and unable to see how these ideas were a product of all the history of writing and thinking that have gone before me.

Malcolm Guite--priest, poet, scholar, and musician--beckoned me on a journey by explaining in the introduction the post-enlightenment split between rational and imaginative thought, which put the humanities at risk of seeming silly and obsolete. I'm one of many pilgrims to walk this planet who've found the humanities to be vital and life-giving, but I've never known how to defend my love for them against the rational rows of numbers and facts that are given so much credit today. And, of course, Guite uses poetry as the foundation of his thesis, focusing on a poem by Heaney which marvels at the rain stick and how a pipe of dried seeds can produce the sounds of lush water. This seeming paradox is referenced at every stage of the journey through Faith, Hope and Poetry.

Fortunately for me, Guite is an excellent tour guide out of my own shadowed valley and on to the mountain top where I can now see the lay of the land that surrounds me. Guite uses each chapter to heal the rift between reason and imagination by showing imaginative powers to be not just equal to but perhaps even superior to dead, inanimate, and shallow materialist explanations for the world. Each chapter catalogs the depths of beauty and meaning of poetry's most popular and enduring symbols (such as light and water) as Guite ushers in historical poets to express his gently unfolding thesis. By the end, he has skillfully <i>unwound</i> centuries of poetry chronologically while simultaneously <i>weaving together</i> the many complex ways different poets have used the same symbols across time and space. All of this serves to prove his thesis that imaginative powers are indeed necessary to understand the world. By the time I reached the mountaintop, I could see exactly what he saw and I agreed with every word.

This book is thorough and self-contained, and yet its ideas reach out to every poem everywhere. I'm at a loss to express how deeply this book moved me and how completely it transformed the way I think. Guite has given me confidence in the absolute necessity of poetry to hold together the seemingly disparate and to reveal the seemingly unknowable.

It isn't until the last page of the book that Guite finally comes out and says it: "A study of poetic imagination turns out to be a form of theology." I will read this book again. The question is how long I'll be able to wait to do it.
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Signpoststeve
5.0 out of 5 stars Championing the Poetic Imagination
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2013
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The first time I read this book was like the first time hearing a great album of music. So many delights... so many unexpected turns... so many great pay-offs.

The second time, I found myself looking forward to certain sections, being dazzled by ones I missed the first time, and settling into the lovely, ambient air of Malcolm's poetic prose - itself a testament to the dictum, the medium is the message.

The third time was more absorbing than the first two. Now familiar, sitting longer with certain passages, and giving myself to the work rather than mining it for bankable insights.

Recently, I've taken to selecting chapters and passages in the same way I might select favorite songs according to mood and occasion, reading for sheer pleasure.

Handily challenging the dry, analytic, reductive and atomizing bluster of the Enlightenment's inordinate reason, Malcolm explores the "power of poetry to renew vision by transfiguring the ordinary, to reveal in 'utter visibility' that things are 'alive with what's invisible.'"

With a reverent mastery of material I've not encountered elsewhere, Malcolm first draws on the archaic Dream of the Rood through Shakespeare to the poetry of Sir John Davies, John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Milton, Coleridge, and on through Thomas Hardy, Philip Larkin, and Geoffrey Hill to the replenishing fountain that is the poetry of Seamus Heaney. Throughout, his purpose is to "vindicate the imagination and to rekindle our sense of the marvelous."

Like another reviewer has already said, I give this 5 stars because there isn't an option for 10.
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Charles C. Twombly
5.0 out of 5 stars Probing--Illuminating--Opens up new vistas
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2012
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I have worked through this amazing book, chapter by chapter, and have found stunning insights on virtually every page. Guite, both a theologian, literary scholar, and poet of great skill, takes us on a tour from the Middle Ages and the Dream of the Rood all the way to our contemporary, Seamus Heaney, with probing chapters on Shakespeare, Coleridge, and several others along the way.

The hypothetical general reader interested in ways faith and art can connect and mutually illuminate each other will find this a rich source. Both theologians and literary scholars could build courses around it; it's perfect for "theology and literature" or "religion and literature" courses. Guite has an amazing grasp of classical theology, the (British) literary tradition, and contemporary culture (the last named being the unspoken backdrop for the other two). Those familiar with him may know him as a college chaplain at Cambridge, the leader of a rock group, a dynamic speaker on the Inklings and poets like Blake and Coleridge, and a fan of American motorcyles. Few bring such varied resources/talents to the table. They vivify the contents of this remarkable book.
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Deona M. Lilly
5.0 out of 5 stars Faith, Hope theology
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Well written, thank you Malcolm. A excellent explanation of thr Raistick, clarified the authors purpose.
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Mr B
5.0 out of 5 stars Faith, hope and poetry. Guite
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 23, 2015
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I wish, this book had been written when I had been teaching Poetry as an English teacher. There were a number of writers who I valued, some bordered on the inspirational – and all of those were poets in their own right. I was given a sonnet by Malcolm Guite by a fellow scribbler, but wanted to get a sense of where this quietness evident in the sonnet, was coming from, and found this. It was as a breath of fresh air. Despite the fact that the positive reviews on the cover were by those with theological interests, this book is free of polemic. The introduction was incisive without being declamatory; the obvious erudition brought about by the best and most sure means of erudition – a love for the subject, came through, with a calm friendly assurance.

The first chapter, like all the following chapters, focuses on a particular poet and/or their work. This one was on the Anglo Saxon poem ‘The Dream of the Rood’. Of particular note were the comments about the opening word ‘Hwaet’, which means listen! A poem needs an audience to listen, and the writer comes from a background full if statements like ‘Those who have ears, let them hear.’ Like the prophet Isaiah who, for some reason I have no wish to analyse, I always find myself drawn to. Two points struck me; neither of which were commented on: the first that there are aural connotations with the word wait, and waiting is always subsumed in the concepts of faith and hope. The second was, that the first word that begins the first poem ‘The song of the Reed’ of Rumi’s Masnavi, is also the word listen; and it is also an imperative. The second chapter turns to two plays of Shakespeare and Guite would doubtless argue, and I would agree with him, that Shakespeare is first a poet, then a dramatist. Other chapters include examinations of Herbert – hardly surprising, then Coleridge on the Imagination, and finally Seamus Heaney.

This is not the kind of book that invites reading from cover to cover, although it can be read that way. It is more likely that people will read first the chapters on those poets whom they find themselves drawn to. That said, there is a subtler structure of the whole book in the chapter subtitles, beginning with dreams – and the discussion on the Dream of Scipio was tantalizing, raising as it did comparisons with Plato’s Myth of Er. The book is clearly the results of much reflection, and each chapter in itself contains, to use Thomas Merton’s phrase, contains ‘seeds for reflection’. Even if not all the poets appear on the surface to be Christian, they are all drinkers of that fountain, knowingly or not, acknowledged explicitly or not, and it manifests as a background of spirituality. The poets selected may not have spoken with the Muses on Mount Helicon, but there are other mountains which they have climbed. And this is, in a way, a taste, and a very quiet, encouragement, and clearly responding to a need which is evident today. I wait for a book on Traherne.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Breaking The Wall of Dichotomies
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I came to Malcolm Guite’s book, Faith, Hope and Poetry, a member of the rare gems of books published by Ashgate as one of its series on Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts through the Nobel laureate, Seamus Heaney. Over the years I have been working on Transfigural Mathematics and its foundations. During the past few years while working through the arithmetic of the mathematics, I began to wonder how some operations radically changed a number into the other and how these numbers translated into a beautiful geometry. If these numbers had changed through inversion operation, I wouldn’t have been surprised but this is not the case. The way they changed was far beyond a tree transforming into table and chairs in the hand of the carpenter but the change was that of an archetype becoming another archetype. This is what led me a few months ago to begin to ask myself about the implication of religious experience to transfigural mathematics. I remember during religion in the primary school doing a lesson on the transfiguration of Jesus Christ. There the heaven and the earth came together. Indeed Jesus and his disciples in his company became heavenly though on earth and Moses and Elijah, though dead, became earthly, though in heaven. So, what could that be, I asked myself some months ago even though it was decades already since I left the primary school.
Of course, the name, Transfigural Mathematics, which came to me inside the train from Göttingen to Bonn in 1985 – I was still then a student at the University of Göttingen - was spontaneous and so have nothing to do with religion whatsoever. And that I came to be asking myself what transfiguration is all about has everything to do with the mysterious behaviours of the numbers of transfigural mathematics and the astrounding experiences I was making on them. So, I had to ask myself aloud some months ago what transfiguration is really. Of course, the name ‘transfigural’ is nowhere to be found in any dictionary in the world even though it has inside it transfiguration, amongst other, in its transfiguralization, a new word for the dictionary entirely. I began my search for ‘transfiguration’ from online etymology dictionary. It had a lot of stuff but nothing to compare with what I wanted. I then consulted google and then stumbled on the biblical quote, “And the word became flesh’ in relation to transfiguration. Compared with what I was experiencing in transfigural mathematics, I told myself, that’s something. For example, Word which is translates into flesh which is a figure that is concrete. This is a case of abstract transfiguring into concrete with both remaining what they are as archetypes. When a thing transfigures, what it transfigures into remains as that which transfigures. And so the Word and the Figure remain. In transformation, one thing gets replaced by the other. The tree is felled and worked on to become the tables and chairs. Not so in transfiguration.
Word becoming flesh is something because in the geometry of transfigural mathematics, space is in figure and figure is in space with one transfiguring in the other. I continued to search until I came to the name of Seamus Heaney whose poetry took me to the Introduction in Malcolm Guite’s book with the title, Poerty and Transfiguration: Reading for a New Vision.
That’s it! I had not read the paper – I later traced it to its source which turned out to be Malcolm Guite’s book, Faith, Hope and Poetry which I ordered from amazon straightaway – but I was convinced that in the hand of poetry, the word transfigures to live the beauty of ambiguity that is celebrated by metaphor. Rose transfigures into my heart, that’s the poetic imagination for you. And so, with gusto, I read the Introduction and when eventually I got my copy of the book, I could not take a pause until I completed it.
Guite has a style of writing that takes the reader on a flow. And so, as the book unfolds with the poems and excursion into the mysteries of transfiguration interspersed with the metaphor of the biblical language, I could relive again, this time, anew, the works of poets I read during my school days and through this began to discover them really.
While reading the book, I did not forget what took me to it. I wanted to know the implications of transfiguration for faith, for hope, as they come to and through the imagination of the poet.
Malcolm Guite succeeded in many fronts so to say. He helps the reader not only to read poems but shows how to read and interpret poems and in so doing, helps the reader cultivate the kind of mindset that is crucial to getting to the heart of poetry.
I did not read most of the poets – religious or humanist – whose poems Guite quoted and explored beautifully but I did read Shakespeare whom he quoted, for example Julius Ceasar, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth which were compulsory for examinations and read the entire work for the joy of it, read too Coleridge and Blake. And so, for me, I got into the book like somebody who is launching on a journey of discovery. I wanted to see how Guite succeed in relating ‘Theology and the Poetic Imagination’ which is the subtitle of his book to the transfigurative potential of poetic imagination.
Guite’s book confronts the Great Divide between faith and knowledge, reasoning and imagination, language and analytics with questions that set out to demonstrate the myopia of the Divide itself. Now, take the divide of faith which anchors on belief and knowledge which is anchored on facts for a launching-pad into dichotomies which are un-natural. How does knowledge begin? Knowledge begins with belief. Indeed without belief there is nothing for knowledge to search. When the ancient Greek philosophers postulated all is water, all are One, up to all is atom of Democritus, there were no experiments that supported what they said. They acted on the belief that is beyond what is directly accessible to the senses. It is not that what they believed are right and history of wars and stifes had shown the total failure of atomic outlook of selfish genes and lonely monads but what is important is that without belief there was nothing to launch the mind on the odyssey. So, belief is primary. Guite quoted Augustine’s essential formula to support the pre-eminence of belief: Credo ut intellegam – I believe in order to understand.
The same myopia attends the Divide of reasoning and imagination. Reason without imagination is brain joggling. It is the counterpart of rote learning to which the wonder making feat of imagination is foreign. The relationship between faith and knowledge could be used for understanding the sterility of reasoning without imagination. In the beginning was imagination. Imagination launches the mind into the province of the unknown, emerges with the baby of creativity and hands this over to reasoning. In other words, reasoning works on what imagination produces. Just as faith is primary, so also is imagination primary when it comes to the production of the new, the boldness to launch the mind into the unknown. Guite confronts the arch-defenders of the intellect that was spearheaded by the founding members of the Royal Society – citing Thomas Sprat’s ‘History of Royal Society’ - with Coleridge, Blake, and Shakespeare who were able to show them not just the limit of human reasoning but the desert dryness, indeed the aridity of reasoning luxuriating in its own limitation of blurred lenses and even rendered jobless without imagination to beckon it to the rich land at the other side of the ocean, the other side that is beyond reason.
History justifies Malcolm Guite’s defence of faith as this relates to belief and imagination and as this relates to poetry. All of Western Thought originated from the belief of ancient Greek philosophers.
New and original ideas cannot come from reasoning. Reasoning is good at accumulation and not at creation. Once given by imagination, reasoning can develop on what is received. Go back to the history of great ideas and what you found behind them are faith and imagination. In this what imagination does is liberate the being from the straight-jacket of parroting the same thing and calling it the new, singing the same song, and calling it the new hit in town. Belief gives the order, go, you can, and forward it marches, the imagination to break the wall. You never can dam the rivers of creative will.
Though addressed to theologicians, writers, and poets, Malcolm Guite’s book is the sands of compromise between the un-natural divides of hemispheres and principalities.
Indeed, the book is an invitation to researchers who are locked up in their capsules in which they see the world through the pigeon-hole to sally out for the fresh breeze of new ideas which is the abode of imagination.
How I wished that Guite had written more his thoughts about or independent of the poems he cited. Good though the poems he quoted are, the point is that I am simply fascinated by his thoughts.
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Peter
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a gem
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 14, 2019
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Quite apart from all Malcolm Guite says about individual poets, he offers a key in his introductory chapter to why he thinks Britain has veered away from accepting that the poetical imagination can be "truth-bearing". The ridiculous caricature that only scientific discourse can tell us anything useful is unmasked in a really convincing way. That I did not expect to find in a book that I was keen to read for quite different reasons. I am a happy boy!
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Adam Boulter
5.0 out of 5 stars If you have any interest in theology, poetry, or life read this.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 15, 2012
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This is one of the best books on this fast expanding field of theology and the arts. It is so many things: a profound work of theology, a beautiful introduction to poetry, and a deeply devotional work. This really deserves to become a spiritual classic. Malcolm brings his fine theological mind to bear on one of his great loves, poetry (the others being blues music, big motorbikes, and conversation). The result is the best book I have read in a long time. If you have any interest in theology, poetry, or life read it.
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Wonderful book.
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