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BloodandFire
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I am an aspiring poet and I need some Catholic influences.
Also, any saints with the same redeeming qualities.
Also, any saints with the same redeeming qualities.
Haha…an artist never reveals his work., - post your poems for us to read.
Donne, a descendant of Saint Thomas More, was reared Catholic, but left the Church to become an Anglican. He was ordained to their ministry and became Dean of Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London.Read if you have not yet, John Donne- “The Holy Sonnets” especially powerful ones like “Batter my heart three personed God”
George Herbert , Andrew Marvell, Yeats, - post your poems for us to read.
Actually I just finished reading Beowulf, great work of literature.Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Why not Beowulf?
Actually, I suggest you read all sorts of good poetry. If you haven’t explored Catholic poetry, then go for it, but don’t shun others’ work just because it isn’t Catholic. “The world is charged with the grandeur of God”.