Poetic Art Gilson supplying omitted lines and stanzas

supplying omitted lines and stanzas to the poems

he impresses his neighbors with his quiet strength and generous charity

” It is thus a world to be visited and revisited in order to more accurately and adequately address the questions of what it means to be human

Bound for England aboard the ocean liner Atlantic

Staunchly upholding the unity of the Old and New Testaments

Poetic Art Gilson supplying omitted lines and stanzasBy Paul Claudel Poetic Art is a proclamation of poetic theory, a fiat to the magnificent vocation of deciphering the mysteries of reality through the practice of poetry. Claudel counted Poetic Art among his most valuable writingsdespite its relatively lukewarm critical receptionas it investigates the metaphysics of poetry and its unique power to reveal truths about God, man, and the cosmos. In the words of one scholar and critic, these pages lift us