Introduction
Chapter 1: Incarnation, or, the elevation of the quotidian: Giorgione, Andrewes, and Kipling in the tangible world
Journey of the Magi, 1927
Chapter 2: Prayer incorporated in poetry
A Song for Simeon, 1928
Chapter 3: The intellect incarnate: opposing Walter Pater, supporting neo-Scholasticism
Animula, 1929
Chapter 4: Emotion embodied and sensation bethought
Marina, 1930
Chapter 5: An idea incarnated in an individual: German philosophy and the First Marshal of Poland
Triumphal March, 1931
Chapter 6: An incarnation of religion: the return to ritual with an altered attitude
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees, 1954
Conclusion: Arcs converging
Biography
Anna Budziak is Associate Professor at the University of Wrocław, Poland, where she teaches in the areas of modernism, decadent aestheticism, and literary theory. She coedited Literature, Performance, and Somaesthetics: Studies in Agency and Embodiment. She also authored Historia u T. S. Eliota: konteksty filozoficzne [History in T. S. Eliot: philosophical contexts] (2002) and Text, Body and Indeterminacy: Doppelgänger Selves in Pater and Wilde (2008), shortlisted for the biannual ESSE Book Award in 2010.
