a Profoundly Valuable Collection, Full Of Fresh Perspective, And Opening Doors Into All Kinds Of Material That Has Been Routinely Neglected Or Patronized' Rowan Williams, Tlsthis Rich And Surprising Anthology Is A Holistic, Global Survey Of A Lyric Conversation About The Divine, One Which Has Been Ongoing For Millennia. Beginning With The Earliest Attributable Author In All Of Human Literature, The Twenty-third Century Bce Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, And Taking In A Constellation Of Voices - From King David To Lao Tzu, From The Epic Of Gilgamesh To The Malian Epic Of Sundiata - This Selection Presents A Number Of Canonical Figures Like Blake, Dickinson And Tagore, Alongside Lesser-anthologized, Diverse Poets Going Up To The Present Day. Together They Show The Breathtaking Multiplicity Of Ways Humanity Has Responded To The Spiritual, Across Place And Time.