Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Appreciation …

… Clarify Me, Please, God of the Galaxies by Dana Gioia | Articles | First Things. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The sorrows of poets are legion, and their failures commonplace. Why does the case of Elizabeth Jennings deserve special consideration? Despite her worldly failures, her artistic career was a steady course of achievement. Jennings ranks among the finest British poets of the second half of the twentieth century. She is also England’s best Catholic poet since Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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