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_aMasefield, John, _d1878-1967 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aGood Friday, and other poems |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-08-17 | ||
| 508 | _aAl Haines | ||
| 520 | _a"Good Friday, and other poems" by John Masefield is a poetry collection written in the early 20th century. It centers on a dramatic retelling of the Passion through the voices of Pilate, his wife Procula, the centurion Longinus, a priestly envoy, a blind madman, Joseph of Ramah, and Herod, then broadens into sonnets meditating on beauty, the self, faith and doubt, nature, death, and war. The likely focus is the conflict between conscience and authority, and how suffering and beauty reveal deeper truth. The opening of the collection stages the Pavement outside the Roman citadel in Jerusalem, where Pilate, swayed by Procula’s ominous dream and a priest’s charge that Jesus claims kingship, wavers but finally condemns him as the crowd clamors for crucifixion. A blind madman pleads for mercy, Pilate posts the inscription “King of the Jews,” and the soldiers lead Jesus away; darkness and an earthquake follow, Longinus returns shaken by the portents, Joseph of Ramah secures permission to bury the body, and Herod arrives to make a political peace with Pilate as the mob cheers. After this dramatic scene, the text shifts to sonnets that probe beauty, the inner self, mortality, possible afterlives, nature’s cycles, the ruptures of war, and recurring Good Friday imagery, before this excerpt closes with “The Madman’s Song,” a parable of a besieged city saved by the scorned wisdom of a madman. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York: The Macmillan Company, 1915 |
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| 653 | _aSonnets, English | ||
| 653 | _aEnglish poetry -- 20th century | ||
| 653 | _aVerse drama | ||
| 653 | _aJesus Christ -- Crucifixion -- Drama | ||
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://archive.org/details/goodfridayotherp00maseuoft | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76700 |
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