"You must be taught to love me": On Louise Glück's Choral Lyric
This essay considers the American poet Louise Glück’s 1992 lyric sequence, The Wild Iris, as a contemporary instantiation of theological choral. Following W. R. Johnson’s work on choral lyric, I propose an account of both theological poetics and lyric theory that allows for a theological treatment o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2025, Volume: 74, Issue: 1, Pages: 62-73 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CE Christian art NAA Systematic theology RC Liturgy |
| Further subjects: | B
lyric theory
B theological poetics B poetry and poetics B contemporary poetry |
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| Summary: | This essay considers the American poet Louise Glück’s 1992 lyric sequence, The Wild Iris, as a contemporary instantiation of theological choral. Following W. R. Johnson’s work on choral lyric, I propose an account of both theological poetics and lyric theory that allows for a theological treatment of Glück’s polyvocal voicings. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2025.a960706 |
