Singing and dancing in the cruellest month: A reflection on theology and poetry in a time of COVID
dc.contributor.author | Southgate, C | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-15T08:51:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-03-10 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article explores what contribution poetry and the arts can make to the human experience in a time of pandemic. It argues that artistic productions can ‘enlarge the heart’ such that sorrow and anxiety are not removed or defeated but are, as in the biblical text, ‘woven […] into a larger imaginative story.’ This argument is made through close examination of three poems: T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”, written in 1922 during the Spanish flu epidemic; “Quarantine” by Eavan Boland, set during the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s; and Malcolm Guite’s “Easter 2020”. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 28 (1), pp. 37 - 47 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.15664/tis.v28i1.2184 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/125127 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | St Mary's College, University of St Andrews | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2021 Christopher Southgate. Open access. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. | en_GB |
dc.title | Singing and dancing in the cruellest month: A reflection on theology and poetry in a time of COVID | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-03-15T08:51:48Z | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from St Mary's College, University of St Andrews via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1465-2862 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Theology in Scotland | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-12-01 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-03-10 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-03-12T20:17:18Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | P | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-03-15T08:51:51Z | |
refterms.panel | D | en_GB |
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