Looking for Catholic Poetry

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Hey everyone,

A non-practicing Catholic friend of mine has gotten pretty interested in poetry. I was wondering if any of yall knew a book of good Catholic themed poetry I could give him as a gift, for his own enjoyment and for evangalization purposes.

Does anyone have any suggestions for such a book that would contain a bit of good Catholic poetry on a variety of subjects of themes?

Thank you very much
 
Gerard Manley Hopkins would be my first choice. Easily one of the greatest writers of poetry in English ever. Being a Jesuit priest, he often wrote on religious subjects, but he’s never didactic.

You might also consider T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden even though they’re not Catholic (they were both converts to Anglicanism, and I believe Auden was interested in Roman Catholicism). If you give Eliot, make sure it includes Ash Wednesday and Four Quartets.

There are other good Catholic poets but the ones I can think of write mostly devotional poetry, which might not go over well since your friend isn’t practicing.
 
Hopkins of course, but I might also suggest Robert Southwell too. The Anglicans though always seem to produce the greatest writers…George Herbert is excellent, as well as Christina Rosetti.
 
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Hopkins of course, but I might also suggest Robert Southwell too. The Anglicans though always seem to produce the greatest writers…George Herbert is excellent, as well as Christina Rosetti.
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Is she related to Dante Gabriel Rosetti?
 
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