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Article: The Poets, Jesus: Representations at the End of a Millennium.(Review)
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- CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health
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- September 22, 2000
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Peggy Rosenthal, The Poets, Jesus: Representations at the End of a Millennium. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 189pp. $29.95 (cloth).
Following on Divine Inspiration, Peggy Rosenthal's fascinating anthology of poems about the life of Jesus, this critical work has a different agenda. How have poets over the past two thousand years represented Jesus? How has he functioned as an image in poetry, and how have different periods been reflected in his image? Primarily, she sees Jesus as a dramatic character cast at various times in history in changing roles. Rosenthal's selection of poets is idiosyncratic -- and that's a virtue. She does not try to be ...
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