Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Cross-Cultural Hermeneutics and Poetics
1. Religious Poetry and Its Readers
2. Christian and Jewish Hermeneutics
Part II. Gerard Manley Hopkins
3. Spelling Hopkins’s Leaves
4. “Past All / Grasp God”: A Catachrestic Reading of “The Wreck of the Deutschland”
5. Reorderings: Hopkins’s Nature Sonnets and the Terrible Sonnets
Part III. T. S. Eliot
6. Reading the Alien Text
7. “Ash Wednesday” and Midrash
8. Four Quartets and Wisdom Literature
Afterword, or Another Word
References
Index