This collection of essays is devoted to the intersections of poetic speech, literary criticism, theology and philosophy. The emphasis falls on the connection between poetry and Logos, word and flesh in poetry from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Professor Małgorzata Grzegorzewska lectures at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. Professor Jean Ward lectures at the Institute of English and American Studies, Gdańsk University, Poland. Professor Mark S. Burrows lectures at the University of Applied Sciences, Bochum, Germany.

«The volume, unified around a clearly defined topic but treating it from a great variety of perspectives, is a valuable and inspiring contribution to the study of intersections of poetry, philosophy, and religion.» (Barbara Kowalik, Studia Bobolanum 4/2015)

Contents: Tadeusz Sławek: The Tremulous Word: On Language in Prayer – Jennifer Reek: Word into Flesh / Flesh into Word: The Making of an Incarnational Textuality – Bernard Sawicki OSB: The Dogmatic Definition of the Council of Chalcedon (451) of Two Natures in the Person of Jesus Christ as a Criterion of the Incarnational Character of Poetry – Marcin Polkowski: «That true word … shal be felt withall». The Incarnation of the Word in Sibilline Oracles as a Theme of Renaissance Poetry and Iconography – Stefano Maria Casella: Eugenio Montale, «The Poor Nestorian at a Loss» – Jamie Callison: Celestial Music Unheard: T. S. Eliot, «Marina» and the – Mirosława Modrzewska: Robert Burns’s «Jarring Thoughts»: Carnivalesque Metaphorisations of Existentialist Spirituality – Olga Włodarczyk-Elsbach: The Embodied «I», the Suffering «I» in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins – Katarzyna Dudek: World as the Icon of the Word: Sacramental Imagination in R. S. Thomas’s Nature Poems – Przemysław Michalski: Lacerating Logos. The Divinity of R. S. Thomas’s Mythic Poems - A Reckless Experimenter or a Selfless Saviour? – Jacek Gutorow: Words Against Words. and the Failure of Poetry – David Malcolm: Feet in Eden?: Some Aspects of Technique in Religious Verse - Edwin Muir, Jon Silkin, and Anne Stevenson – Martin Potter: Incarnation and Embodiment in The Poetry and Theoretical Writings of David Jones – Mary Elisabeth Regina Esser: «One feels its action moving in the blood»: Arrhythmia as the Art of Reality in Wallace Stevens’s «Esthétique du Mal» – Klaudia Łączyńska: Word-As-Flesh Made Artefact: Andrew Marvell’s Poetic Moulding Of The Word.