The tension between form and feeling in Dickinson seems in retrospect essential to her New England Protestantism, for which nature was at once a sign of God’s determinations and a wild emblem of the devil’s temptations. Chandler’s poems, in contrast, suggest the complementarity of nature and grace, of faith and reason, proper to Catholicism.
Wednesday, September 06, 2017
Sinners welcome …
… Poetry and Prayer | The Weekly Standard. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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