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This chapter tells of an experiment, one which attempted to fuse criticism and creativity, literature and liturgy, into a new kind of literary response. It tells of the making of Redcrosse: a new poetic liturgy for St George’s Day, co-authored by poets, a theologian, and a critic (me), and written partly in reaction to Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene.1
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Fernie, E. (2013). Redcrosse: Storytelling, Nation and Religion in England. In: Shaw, J., Kelly, P., Semler, L.E. (eds) Storytelling: Critical and Creative Approaches. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137349958_18
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