This book explores the Poet Laureateship from the Restoration to today, revealing the symbolic link it forges between literature, the Monarchy, and national identity.
This book features accessible close readings of modern poetry’s engagement with religious experience. It presents diverse modes of the poetic endeavor to capture the divine, exploring a spectrum of attitudes from Christian faith to the worship of nature as the Force of Life.
Panecka interprets the poetry of Ted Hughes as a product of shamanic performance, the work of a mystic and a healer. She shows that the Poet Laureate claimed that England had lost her soul, which he proposed to retrieve through veneration of Nature.
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