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is dedicated to my sister  \n6ICTORIA (UGHES  \nwith love and gratitude  \nCopyright © 2011 by  \nThe Curators ofthe University of Missouri University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri 65201 Printed and bound in the United States of America  \nAll rights reserved  \n5 4 3 2 1 15 14 13 12 11  \nCataloging-in-Publication data is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 978-0-8262-1917-6  \n This paper meets the requirements of the  \nAmerican National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48, 1984.  \nDesign and composition: Jennifer Cropp  \nPrinting and binding: Integrated Book Technology, Inc.  \nTypefaces: Minion and Cancellaresca Script  \nEven in its most trivial, homespun variants, art can only work from the vantage point of eternity, if it is not to despair of and suffocate in its own irrelevance.  \n°(ERMANN\"ROCH  \n\\#ONTENTS  \nAcknowledgments xi  \nIntroduction 1  \n/NE Childhood, Transcendence, and Art 9  \n4WO Spiritual Functions of Art 23  \nLonergan on Art 26  \nArt and the Metaxy 32  \n4HREE Elemental Meaning and Gerard Manley Hopkins 38  \nLonergan on Elemental Meaning 39  \nHopkins’s Religious and Artistic Development 43  \nInscape, Instress, and the Divine Heart of Nature 46  \nPoetry as Spiritual Epiphany 53  \nThe Poetry of Spiritual Desolation 56  \n&OUR Emily Dickinson and the Unknown God 62  \nPoet of the In-Between 63  \nDivine Being as Mystery 72  \nDickinson’s Drama of Human-Divine Encounter 75  \nThe Unknown God 82","cbCaidDmYS5Vngvz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidDmYS5Vngvz","pdf",1232683,185,"English","# Childhood, Transcendence, and Art\n## Spiritual Functions of Art\n## Lonergan on Art\n## Art and the Metaxy\n# Elemental Meaning and Gerard Manley Hopkins\n## Lonergan on Elemental Meaning\n## Hopkins’s Religious and Artistic Development\n## Inscape, Instress, and the Divine Heart of Nature\n## Poetry as Spiritual Epiphany\n## The Poetry of Spiritual Desolation\n# Emily Dickinson and the Unknown God\n## 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