This is not a run-of-the-mill academic book on poetry; it is...original, even to the point of seeming idiosyncratic and everything in it is deeply pondered. It is elegantly written and readable. Bernard Bergonzi ...finely written essays, an energetic and skilled practicum in neo-romantic poetics...a notable attempt to write into the difficult onomasticon of modern literary theory a Christian perspective on 'the power and mystery of words.'> Religion and Literature ...finely written essays, an energetic and skilled practicum in neo-romantic poetics...a notable attempt to write into the difficult onomasticon of modern literary theory a Christian perspective on 'the power and mystery of words.' Religion and Literature This is not a run-of-the-mill academic book on poetry; it is...original, even to the point of seeming idiosyncratic and everything in it is deeply pondered. It is elegantly written and readable. Bernard Bergonzi

This is not a run-of-the-mill academic book on poetry; it is...original, even to the point of seeming idiosyncratic and everything in it is deeply pondered. It is elegantly written and readable. Bernard Bergonzi ...finely written essays, an energetic and skilled practicum in neo-romantic poetics...a notable attempt to write into the difficult onomasticon of modern literary theory a Christian perspective on 'the power and mystery of words.'> Religion and Literature ...finely written essays, an energetic and skilled practicum in neo-romantic poetics...a notable attempt to write into the difficult onomasticon of modern literary theory a Christian perspective on 'the power and mystery of words.' Religion and Literature This is not a run-of-the-mill academic book on poetry; it is...original, even to the point of seeming idiosyncratic and everything in it is deeply pondered. It is elegantly written and readable. Bernard Bergonzi