A Little Book of Hours
Book Details
Author(s)John F. Deane
PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd.
ISBN / ASIN1857549708
ISBN-139781857549706
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Sales Rank3,826,855
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Taking its starting point from John Donne’s prose—“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the mainâ€Â—John Deane takes a period of time and trawls through it for meaning and purpose. Beginning with a simple island, each subsequent piece features great figures, such as King David, and examines the futility of war and the place of poetry in fighting for a more just society. The collection’s centerpiece, “A Little Book of Hours,†journeys through Europe in search of spiritual truth. This collection is a meditation on how the Christian myth is seen to penetrate all of humanity and nature.







