The Poetics of “Standing in Relation” William James in Conversation with Transcendent Poets Expressing Relation with the Divine
University Of Wales Trinity Saint David Research Repository October 1, 2018 Elle Hughes
This dissertation undertakes the study of religious experience in religious poetry utilizing the ideas of the twentieth century American psychologist and philosopher William James. James’s ideas that the religious impulse is personal, relational, and experiential with its source in the inner life of the individual provide the lens for this study. Because poetry draws from the inner life for its...