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May 11th @ 7:15 pm

The Catholic Imagination in Modern American Poetry

May 11
The Catholic Imagination in Modern American Poetry

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Part of our Western Suburban Catholic Culture Series. This event will be live streamed on Zoom.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the American Historian Henry Adams wrote admiringly of the Catholic mind as it found expression in the medieval world. It was beautiful, it was good, but, alas, could not be true. Within a generation, younger American writers were impelled by that same beauty but dared to ask whether they might be equally impelled by the Catholic vision of the world as true. Thus began a great literary adventure, as American poets entered into the Catholic tradition and sought to make poems that conveyed the depth and power of an encounter with the Catholic proclamations of faith as the truth of the world.

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"The Second Vatican Council and the Church's Engagement with the Modern World"
James Matthew Wilson