Exploring a range of twentieth and twenty-first century Marian prayer-poetry – poem-prayers directed to or involving Mary - by poets such as T. S. Eliot, David Jones, Geoffrey Hill, Elizabeth Jennings, Hilary Davies and Rowan Williams, this book traces its resurgence from the late nineteenth-century to the present day. By the early twentieth century, the once widespread and fervent cult of the Virgin Mary had been at best deeply hidden, if not entirely absent from England’s religious life, since the Reformation. The figure of Mary similarly largely vanished from English poetry, only to...