The Epiphany and Poetry
The Feast of the Epiphany is a day that commemorates, among Western Christians, the visit of royal magi to the baby Jesus and, among…
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Italian Light: Elizabeth Jennings and Thomas Aquinas
[Editor’s Note: Last week, Ann Loades reviewed Dana Greene’s biography of Elizabeth Jennings and considered her turbulent life, her prolific body of work, and…
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Review: Elizabeth Jennings: ‘The Inward War’
Dana Greene. Elizabeth Jennings: ‘The Inward War’. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xx + 258 pages. £25.00 / $35.00 cloth. Dana Greene is Dean Emerita of Oxford…
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Time and Faith within the Urban and the Rural, Part 2
After last week looking at the importance of the city in T. S. Eliot’s poetry, we now turn to the rural context. Eliot’s final…
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Time and Faith within the Urban and the Rural, Part 1
Over the past year, my transition from the car horns and sirens of Philadelphia to the call of seagulls in St Andrews has put…
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Singing with Madam Jazz: A Conversation with Micheal O’Siadhail
In one of his many essays on Milton, Northrop Frye defines the epic poem as a ‘special kind’ of narrative poem that does more…
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TheoArtistry Festival: Sacred Music for the 21st Century
On the 5th and 6th of March 2018, scholars, composers and poets descended upon the medieval town of St Andrews in order to explore…
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