PAUL MARIANI is the author of Thirty Days: On Retreat with the Exercises of St. Ignatius and five volumes of poetry, including, most recently, The Great Wheel. Besides several critical studies, he has also published biographies of Robert Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, and John Berryman. Mariani currently holds a Chair in English at Boston College.

Scholarly yet passionate, learned yet accessible, these memoirs, interpretations, and generous appraisals bring to the study of contemporary poetry a perfect conjoining of sympathy, mastery, inventiveness, and a deeply felt religious faith. God and the Imagination is a brilliant, loving, radiant book.

PAUL MARIANI is the author of Thirty Days: On Retreat with the Exercises of St. Ignatius and five volumes of poetry, including, most recently, The Great Wheel. Besides several critical studies, he has also published biographies of Robert Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, and John Berryman. Mariani currently holds a Chair in English at Boston College.

Scholarly yet passionate, learned yet accessible, these memoirs, interpretations, and generous appraisals bring to the study of contemporary poetry a perfect conjoining of sympathy, mastery, inventiveness, and a deeply felt religious faith. God and the Imagination is a brilliant, loving, radiant book.

PAUL MARIANI is the author of Thirty Days: On Retreat with the Exercises of St. Ignatius and five volumes of poetry, including, most recently, The Great Wheel. Besides several critical studies, he has also published biographies of Robert Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, and John Berryman. Mariani currently holds a Chair in English at Boston College.

Scholarly yet passionate, learned yet accessible, these memoirs, interpretations, and generous appraisals bring to the study of contemporary poetry a perfect conjoining of sympathy, mastery, inventiveness, and a deeply felt religious faith. God and the Imagination is a brilliant, loving, radiant book.