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Professor, author and poet Geoffrey Hill
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Sunday, April 27, 2003
English Devotional Poetry
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The Marsh Chapel Poetry Reading Series at Boston University sponsors two to four readings every semester, with the goal of bringing quality poetry into the daily life of the public at large. The series offers a range of readers, from renowned poets to emerging writers, and the subject matter often emphasizes the social and spiritual life.
On this week's show, Boston University Professor of Literature and Religion, Geoffrey Hill, read excerpts from English devotional poetry written between 1500 and 1900 by selected English authors. Professor Hill, who has written about editorial matters relating to both theological and literary texts and is a renowned poet himself, read these poems as part of a meditative reading commemorating this year's Good Friday.
List of poems and their authors that professor Geoffrey Hill read from:
"Psalm 39," "Psalm 90" - By Miles Covedale (1488-1568)
"The Burning Babe" - By Robert Southwell (1561-95)
"A Hymne to Christ" - By John Donne (1572-1631)
"Redemption," "Love" - By George Herbert (1593-1733)
"Hymn" - By Sidney Godolphin (1610-43)
"The Coronet" - By Andrew Marvell (1621-78)
"The Night," "Man" - By Henry Vaughan (1621-95)
"Hymn to the Holy Ghost," "Free Grace" - By Charles Wesley (1707-88)
Boethius' "De Consolatione Philosophiae," Book III, Metre 6 - Translated by Samuel Johnson (1709-84)
"Olney Hymns" Book I, no. 41 - By John Newton
"The Cast-away" - By William Cowper (1731-1800)
"Preface" to Milton's "A Poem in 2 Books" - By William Blake (1757-1827)
"Stars" - By Emily Jane Bronte (1818-48)
"As Kingfishers Catch Fire," "Thou art indeed just, Lord" - By Gerard M. Hopkins (1844-89)
"Upon a Gloomy Night" - By Roy Campbell (1901-57)
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