David C. Mahan

Blowing Clover, Falling Rain

Arts & Literature

“As erudite as it is eloquent, Travis Helms’ book offers a first-rate treatment of American poetry and religion, and of the tradition of American religious poetry. Rooted in the complexities of literary canonicity and criticism, Helms’ illuminating treatment of four of the founding poets of the ‘American Sublime’ reminds us of the abiding importance of the religious to the American literary imagination. . . . Scholars of American poetry and literary history, as well as those working at the intersection of literature and religion, and theopoetics, will find this book a significant contribution to their fields of study.”