The Cambridge Companion to Keats
In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats’s work in several fascinating contexts: literary history and key predecessors; Keats’s life in London’s intellectual, aesthetic and literary culture; the relation of his poetry to the visual arts; the critical traditions and theoretical contexts within which Keats’s life and achievements have been assessed. These specially commissioned essays examine Keats’s specific poetic endeavours, his striking way with language, and his lively letters as well as his engagement with contemporary cultures and literary traditions, his place in criticism, from his day to ours, including the challenge he poses to gender criticism. The contributions are sophisticated but accessible, challenging but lucid, and are complemented by an introduction to Keats’s life, a chronology, a descriptive list of contemporary people and periodicals, a source-reference for famous phrases and ideas articulated in Keats’s letters, a glossary of literary terms and a guide to further reading.
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
Sunday, July 19th, 2009Imagine what it must have been like to have known the man who saved the world.
Jean-Yves Leloup’s translation of the Gospel of Mary from the Coptic and his thorough and profound commentary on this text are presented here for the first time in English. The text emphasizes the eminence of the divine feminine and an abiding love of nature over the dualistic and ascetic interpretations of Christianity presented elsewhere. What emerges from this important source text and commentary is a renewal of the sacred feminine in the Western spiritual tradition.
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