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Document Details : Title: Buzzing Up towards the Choirs Subtitle: The Theme of Gotes Geswîgen in C.O. Jellema's Poem 'De Tombe van Meister Eckhart' Author(s): VAN DER POL, Louisa Journal: Studies in Spirituality Volume: 28 Date: 2018 Pages: 169-187 DOI: 10.2143/SIS.28.0.3285330 Abstract : The Dutch poet C.O. Jellema translated six treatises and thirty-six sermons of Meister Eckhart. The title of his translation – Over God wil ik zwijgen (Of God I will not speak) – is often explained, at least in the Netherlands, as a restraint upon any speaking of God, because whatever we may say and in whatever way we may say it, these are but human fabrications. By studying Jellema’s poetry, in which Eckhartian themes are interwoven, it will be clear that as much for Eckhart as for Jellema ‘not-speaking of God’ is an act of praising Him in full surrender. Especially I will demonstrate this by considering the posthumously published poem ‘De tombe van Meister Eckhart’ (‘The Tomb of Meister Eckhart’) which, within its intertextuality, includes Eckhart’s treatise Parisian Questions I. |
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