9780241391587
The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse

Poets have always looked to the skies for inspiration, and have written as a way of getting closer to the power and beauty they sense in nature, in each other and in the cosmos. This anthology serves as a truly holistic and global survey to a lyric conversation about the divine that has been going on for millenia. Beginning with the earliest attributable author in all of human literature, the twenty-third century BC Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, and taking in a constellation of voices—from King David, to Lao Tzu, to the fourteenth century Ethiopian national religious epic, the Kebra Nagast—this anthology presents a number of canonical voices like Blake, Rumi, Dickinson and Tagore, alongside lesser-anthologized diverse voices that showcase the breathtaking multiplicity of ways in which humanity has responded to the Divine across the centuries. These poets' voices commune across the centuries, offering readers a chance to experience for themselves the vast and powerful interconnectedness of these incantations orbiting the most elemental of all subjects—our spirit.

  • Publisher: Penguin Classics UK
  • Publication date: 26/05/2022
  • ISBN: 9780241391587
  • Page extent: 400
  • Format: Hardback
  • Dimensions: 204 mm x 133 mm
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