Friday, November 22, 2013

Poetry as a spiritual guide …

… The Spiritual Autobiography of Christian Wiman - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

What I love in Wiman is the way he reads poems as urgent messages in a bottle, weaving their texts into his evolving consciousness, his sad personal story, linking his language with theirs, showing us clearly and definitively what Dr. Johnson, the great English critic, meant when he said: "The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it."

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