Acknowledgements; Introduction, Adrian Grafe (Paris IV, Sorbonne, France); 1. Gerard Manley Hopkins as religious conduit in Geoffrey Hill, George Mackay Brown and Edwin Muir, Catherine Phillips (Cambridge University); 2. From the Beauty of religion to the religion of beauty: Catholicism and aestheticism in fin-de-siecle poetry, Claire Masurel-Murray (Paris III, France). 3. The heart's censer: Liturgy, poetry and the Catholic devotional revolution, Maureen Moran (Brunel University); 4. Hymns in a man's life: The Congregational chapel and D.H. Lawrence's early poetry, Andrew Harrison (University of Darmstadt); 5. Slouching towards Bethlehem: Yeats, Eliot and the Modernist Apocalypse, David Rudrum (London Metropolitan University); 6. 'The unattended moment': Selfhood and the experience of the transcendent in Eliot's Four Quartets, David Summers (Capital University, Ohio); 7. 'If/Sins can be forgiven, if bodies rise from the dead': forgiveness and the body in Auden's post-conversion poems, Kathleen Bell (De Montfort University); 8. Kathleen Raine: Song of the living soul, Annick Johnson (Artois University); 9. The sacrificial victim in David Jones's In Parenthesis, Roland Bouyssou (Toulouse Mirail University, France); 10. 'For the failure of language there is no redress': R.S. Thomas, poetry and prayer, Daniel Szabo (Paris 7 University, France); 11. The metaphysical joke: church going with Philip Larkin, Andrew McKeown (University of Poitiers, France); 12. 'Metamorphic power': Geoffrey Hill and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Taylor Merriman (Boston University); 13. Simone Weil among the poets, Adrian Grafe (Paris IV, Sorbonne, France); 14. Christian poetry and 'now', Michael Edwards (College de France, Paris); Index.
