Word Hoard: An Anthology of Poems Every Christian Should Know

THE WORD HOARD ANTHOLOGY is intended to be a Christian collection of poetry. Not a collection of Christian poetry, but a Christian collection of poetry. These are poems that every English-speaking Christian should know.This is not a collection designed for someone hoping to get the whole modernist poetic canon, the poems the world wishes to acknowledge as important in progressing to our moment in history. Although godless poets and poems have been included, everything here points toward God or toward man’s end without God. In other words, the beauty of the poems turns us toward the transcendent.As English speakers, we have an incredible poetic heritage. We come from a people who mightily and manfully valued verbs and verse. If we desire to preserve and recover that heritage, we must begin by knowing it. So tolle lege, pick up and read, Western Christian.Contents include selections from:15th Century & Earlier: Robert Mannying; Geoffrey Chaucer; John Lydgate; William Dunbar.16th Century: Walter Raleigh; Edmund Spenser; Philip Sidney; Mary Sidney Herbert; Henry Constable; Michael Drayton; Christopher Marlowe; William Shakespeare; Chidiock Tichborne.17th Century: John Donne; William Drummond; Robert Herrick; George Herbert; John Milton; Anne Bradstreet; Richard Lovelace; Thomas Traherne; Edward Taylor.18th Century: John Scott of Amwell; William Cowper; William Blake.19th Century: William Wordsworth; Walter Scott; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Lord Byron; Charles Wolfe; Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Keats; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Edgar Allan Poe; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; William Makepeace Thackeray; Robert Browning; Matthew Arnold; George MacDonald; Emily Dickinson; Christina Rossetti; Lewis Carroll; Bret Harte; Thomas Hardy; Arthur O’Shaughnessy; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Francis William Bourdillon; A. E. Housman; Francis Thompson; Mary Elizabeth Coleridge; Rudyard Kipling; W. B. Yeats; Edwin Arlington Robinson.20th Century: G. K. Chesterton; Robert Frost; John Masefield; Carl Sandburg; Ezra Pound; Siegfried Sassoon; Rupert Brooke; T. S. Eliot; Wilfred Owen; W. H. Auden; Louis MacNeice; Stephen Spender; Dylan Thomas; John Gillespie Magee Jr. Read more