Suggestions for Encounters with Catholic Poetry
William Alabaster (1568-1640): Sonnets 1, 2, 15, 16, 19, 24, 32, 33, 34, 37, 44, 45, 46, 70, 71
Brother Antoninus (William Everson): The Rose of Solitude. [UST PS3509 .V65 R6 1967]
---. Man-fate: the swan song of Brother Antoninus [UST PS3509 .V65 M3]
---. The hazards of holiness: poems, 1957-1960 [UST PS 3501. N77 .H3 (1962)]
---. The veritable years, 1949-1966.
---. The crooked lines of God.
John Berryman: Love and Fame
---. The Dream Songs.
Richard Crashaw (1613?-1649): “Luke 11: Blessed be the paps which Thou has sucked”
Catherine DeVinck: A Passion Play
The Dream of the Rood
John Donne: “Batter my heart, three-person’d God”, “Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward”
T. S. Eliot : “Ash Wednesday”, “Journey of the Magi”, “A Song for Simeon”, “Animula”, “Choruses from ‘The Rock’”, “Burnt Norton”, “East Coker”, “The Dry Salvages”, “Little Gidding”
George Herbert (1593-1633): “The Sacrifice”, “The Reprisall”, “The Sinner”, “Redemption”, “Easter-Wings”, “Nature”, “Sinne”, “Affliction”, “Prayer”, “The Temper”, “Jordan”, “Employment”, “Praise”, “The Church-Floore”, “The Windows”, “The Quidditie”, “Humilitie”, “Employment”, “Deniall”, “Ungratefulnesse”, “Sighs and Grones”, “The World”, “Vanitie”, “Vertue”, “The Pearl”, “Man”, “Charms and Knots”, “Miserie”, “The Quip”, “Providence”, “Hope”, “Sinnes Round”, “Peace”, “Mans Medley”, “The Storm”, “Artillerie”, “The Pilgrimage”, “The Discharge”, “The Collar”, “Clasping of Hands”, “Praise”, “The Flower”, “Aaron”, “The Odour”, “The Elixir”, “Dooms-Day”, “Heaven”, “Love”
Josephine Jacobsen. In the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Denise Levertov. Sands of the Well. : New Directions, 1996
Robert Lowell (1917-1977): “The Quaker Graveyard at Nantucket”, “Memories of West Street and Lepke”
The Pearl Poet: Patience, Cleanness and/or Pearl
Anne Porter. An Altogether Different Language. : Zoland Books, 1996.
Jessica Powers: The Lantern Burns
---. The Place of Splendor
---. Mountain Sparrow
---. The House at Rest
Anne Sexton: The Awful Rowing Toward God
---. 45 Mercy Street
---. The Book of Folly
---. The Death Notebooks
Stevie Smith (1902-1971): “Not Waving, But Drowning”, “Was He Married?”, “To Carry the Child”
Robert Southwell (1561?-1595): “Looke home”, “At home in Heaven”, “Sinnes heavie loade”, “Christs sleeping friends”, “New Prince, new pompe”, “The burning Babe”, “New Heaven, new warre”, “The Virgin Maries conception”, “Her Nativity”, “The Virgins salutation”, “The Visitation”, “The Nativitie of Christ”, “The Presentation”, “The flight into Egypt”, “Christs returne out of Egypt”, “The death of our Ladie”, “Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death”, “A vale of teares”
Allen Tate (1899-1979): “The Swimmers”
Francis Thompson: “The Hound of Heaven”
Richard Wilbur: “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World,” “On the Eyes of an SS Officer”, “A World Without Objects is a Sensible Emptiness”, “A Plain Song for a Comrade”, “The Rule”, “A Wedding Toast”, “Matthew VIII, 28ff”, “Peter”, “On Having Misidentified a Wild Flower”