Imaginative Reading 7: Poetry
Report from Imaginative Reading for Creative Preaching, a three-week seminar sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Preaching at Calvin Theological Seminary, hosted by Seminars in Christian Scholarship, and co-led by CTS president Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.:
English Department Professor Susan Felch opened our discussion of poetry this morning (primarily by Jane Kenyon and Robert Frost) with a quote from Jane Kenyon:
“The poet’s job is to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, in such a beautiful way that people cannot live without it; to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name… We have the consolation of beauty, of one soul extending to another soul and saying, ‘I’ve been there too.’”
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