Bibliogr. s. 340-341. Redaktorka podpisana: Barbara Marczuk

The article presents Elizabeth Jennings, one of the most important lyrical poets of the 20th century, and it concentrates on the religious profile of her poetry, with a particular emphasis laid on the Incarnation, Real Presence and sacramentality, featuring conspicuously in Roman Catholicism which was Jennings’ major inspiration. In her poetic idiom Jennings underscores a mystical and ontological link between poetic words and Logos as the eternal Word of God, and she makes ample use of silence which becomes a poetic space especially suitable to contain the sense of the Divine. The discussion focuses on Jennings’ poems addressing the issues of painting, music and the natural beauty of the world, for in her poetic vision they are specific territories of the human encounters with God. Jennings’ literary output shows how the borderline between poetry as an artistic activity, and prayer seen in terms of talking to, or contemplating God, gets blurred. In her work the poetic space becomes the best milieu for the expression of the poet’s experience of the Divine.