INFLUENCED BY SWEDENBORG

Title: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Author: Olga Tokarczuk

Translator: Antonia Lloyd-Jones

With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an. . .

Title: LEAVES OF GRASS

Author: Walt Whitman

Introduction: Jerome Loving

Walt Whitman is now regarded as the first great American poet, and Leaves of Grass his masterpiece. Yet the first edition was met with apathy and antipathy in equal measure, and. . .

Title: Jerusalem: Blake, Parry, and the Fight for Englishness

Author: Jason Whittaker

The stanzas beginning, ‘And did those feet’ are among the most famous works written by the Romantic poet and artist, William Blake. Set to music by Hubert Parry in 1916. . .

Title: Images of the Afterlife in Cinema

Author: James Wilson

These texts were written to accompany the screenings of the Images of the Afterlife in Cinema film season held at the Swedenborg Society during the Autumn of 2010 and have. . .

Title: A LANGUAGE OF THINGS: Emanuel Swedenborg and the American Environmental Imagination

Author: Devin Zuber

Long overlooked, the natural philosophy and theosophy of the Scandinavian scientist-turned-mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) made a surprising impact in America. Thomas Jefferson, while president, was so impressed with the message. . .