Run, Shepherds, Run
Description
The Advent season is filled with rich themes that have fascinated poets. In Run, Shepherds, Run, Bill Countryman presents a poem a day for devotional reading during Advent and the twelve days of Christmas. Readers will find classic poets they know and love, including George Herbert, John Donne, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as well as contemporary poets, known and unknown.
Run, Shepherds, Run includes helpful hints for reading poetry, for those who have less experience reading it than others, as well as useful annotations to help readers with older language that may not have easily apparent meanings for today's readers.
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L. William Countryman is a retired professor of New Testament from Church Divinity School of the Pacific. He has authored numerous books for scholars and laity, including How Can Anyone Read the Bible?: A Little Book of Guidance,Calling on the Spirit in Unsettling Times, and Living on the Border of the Holy: Renewing the Priesthood of All. He lives in Berkeley, California.
Content
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- An Invitation
- Thoughts on Reading Poetry
- First Week of Advent
- Second Week of Advent
- Third Week of Advent
- Fourth Week of Advent
- Christmas Eve
- Christmas
- The Feast of the Epiphany
- The Poets
- Acknowledgments
- Index of Poets
- Permissions
