Table of Contents
Preface 9
Introduction The Vocation Of The Catholic Poet Today 15
I On The Quiver Of Mystery Gerard Manley Hopkins And His Influence 35
1 Hopkins And The Poetics Of Jesuit Spirituality 37
2 The Havoc And The Glory 72
3 The Franciscan Hearts Of Hopkins And Merton 86
4 "The One Sane Milkman, I Fear" 94
5 The Dublin Notebook 122
6 When Poets Write Letters 128
7 What The World Can Tell Us 135
II In Ordinary Time Variations On A Theme In Modern American Poetry 139
8 Wallace Stevens, Mystery Man 141
9 The Auroras Of Autumn 148
10 The River Of Language 154
11 "Not Less Than Everything" 161
12 Difficult Henry And The Dream Songs 171
13 What Lies Beyond Language 178
III Poetry In A Post-Christian Age 185
14 Charism And the Literary Imagination 187
15 "Who Is That on The Other Side of You?" 201
16 The Cry Of The Poor 206
17 In The Footsteps Of Ignatius 211
18 Can One Still Write A Christ-Centered Poetry? 216
Epilogue On The Work Still To Be Done 225
Notes 233
