Why other people love poetry
Poetry is one of the hardest things to teach. The task is not made easier with the knowledge that in the past students have been taught it badly. The post Why other people love poetry appeared first on The Catholic…
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‘Ars Poetica’ – The Catholic Thing
The proverbial Martian visiting America in this 250th year (a whole quarter millennium) of our existence would be struck by many things. But probably by nothing more obvious than the large gap between what, on the one hand, we daily say and do –…
Poetry in Church – The Catholic Thing
Augustine admits in Confessions that when he was young, he did not like the Scriptures; he found the language ugly and uninspiring. He preferred Cicero and Virgil. Worse yet, some things in the Scriptures caused him to think Christianity was…