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| | Francis Phillips reviews The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961, by Ian Ker |
 | | Rightly distinguishing between writers who happen to be Catholic and Catholic writers, he answers this question by selecting 6 authors whose religion was central to what they wrote, whether poetry, novels, criticism or essays. |
 | | Thus Francis Thompson is excluded as although he was Catholic his poetry, including the powerful Hound of Heaven, is not distinctively informed by his faith; similarly, Edith Sitwell, a convert, wrote her poetry before her conversion. |
 | | Catholic artists are not trying to preach or write theology; their genius, like that of any artist, is peculiar to them; but because this most protean, beautiful and theologically powerful faith is central to their way of refracting their experience, it will necessarily infuse or inspire what they write. |
| www.theotokos.org.uk /pages/breviews/francisp/frianker.html (786 words) |
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