Dellicarpini, John
About the author: John Dellicarpini received his PhD from Temple University in 1989 and has taught English and European literature at Gwynned Mercy College, Manor Junior College, and Saint Charles Seminary College. He is the author of Prayer and Piety in the Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1998) and Poetry as Prayer: Emily Dickinson (2002) and writes regularly for Vocation and Prayer magazine. He publishes often about religion and literature.
2026 1-4955-1352-1This book, Emily Dickinson: Immanent Mystic, seeks to illuminate the spiritual heart of Dickinson’s work — revealing the mystic soul that inhabited her quiet, secluded life. Often misunderstood as a simple poet of nature and love, Dickinson was, in fact, a visionary who ventured beyond the confines of traditional faith to explore an intimate connection with the divine. Her poetry, filled with paradox and wonder, invites readers to consider the sacred in every moment, the miraculous in the mundane. In the quiet of her Amherst home, Emily Dickinson penned words that would echo through the chambers of time. Known for her reclusive lifestyle and enigmatic personality, Dickinson is often celebrated as an expert in unconventional form and language. Yet, behind her brevity and ambiguity lies an extraordinary mind that grappled deeply with questions of existence, divinity, and the cosmos.
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2004 0-7734-6411-5
This book is a thoughtful and sensitive study of Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Sonnets focusing on the Church, History and Politics. Dellicarpini's reflections on The Ecclesiastical Sonnets are an illuminating resource for students of Wordsworth.
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1998 0-7734-8380-2
Prayer, like any discipline, is a learned experience from parental guidance in one's early years to spiritual direction and mentoring later. Some pray professionally, like cloistered religious whose primary responsibility it is to appeal to God for the world and to consecrate each moment with holiness; these religious men and women do perhaps the most important work on earth. Nonetheless every person requires moments of serenity in which to lift the mind and heart to a higher power-in praise, thanksgiving, or petition when confronted with life's complications. The simple acknowledgment of God at a meeting, a computer terminal, or a kitchen sink is a prayer. Note that the elemental definition of prayer-the lifting of the mind and heart to God-says nothing about what to say or where to say it. Prayer may be whispered in a car as well as a cathedral, a mall as well as a meadow. What it does say is that prayer involves one's intellect and emotions-one's total being.
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