The Truth's Superb Surprise: How Poetry Can Open Your Eyes and Deepen Your Thought

Speaker(s): Malcolm Guite
Date: Summer 2017
Length: 1h 1m
Product ID: RGDL4702AA

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Emily Dickinson's great phrase, "The Truth's Superb's Surprise," has much to teach us about poetry, preaching and prayer. Drawing on the poetry of Dickinson and many others, poet, professor and priest Malcolm Guite considers how poetic imagination renews faith.

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Malcolm Guite is a poet and singer-songwriter living in Cambridge, England where he also works as a priest and academic. Dr. Guite lectures widely in both the UK and North America and is the author of several books on literature and theology. Sounding the Seasons, his volume of sonnets for the church year, was published by Canterbury Press in 2013.

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