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  • A Catholic novelist whose Mariette in Ecstasy 1991 convincingly penetrates the experience of religious passion, Hansen thus seeks to bring back to life not only the young priest-poet but also the five Franciscan nuns from Westphalia who died in the wreck of the Deutschland.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • A Catholic novelist whose Mariette in Ecstasy 1991 convincingly penetrates the experience of religious passion, Hansen thus seeks to bring back to life not only the young priest-poet but also the five Franciscan nuns from Westphalia who died in the wreck of the Deutschland.

    Goldengrove 2008

  • _Centrum_ frequently enjoys the co-operation of Dr. Herman Schaepman, the priest-poet, whose somewhat ponderous eloquence is agreeably relieved by a glowing enthusiasm and a refreshing force of conviction.

    Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough

  • The pious comedies of the Castilian priest-poet, whose poetical flowers had been besprinkled with holy water and canonical perfumes ... were now set up as models, and Germany swarmed with fantastically pious, insanely profound poems, over which it was the fashion to work one's self into a mystic ecstasy of admiration, as in

    A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

  • Pair was a priest-poet; he was not a minstrel, and his "Roman" was not a chanson; it was made to read, not to recite; but the "Chanson de Roland" was a different affair.

    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

  • Readers moved by religion, poetry and their effects on people's lives may be fascinated by this almost day-to-day account of English priest-poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.

    GotPoetry.com News 2008

  • Readers moved by religion, poetry and their effects on people's lives may be fascinated by this almost day-to-day account of English priest-poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.

    GotPoetry.com News 2008

  • Biography of priest-poet Gerard Manley Hopkins shows strength of verse

    Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories 2008

  • Readers moved by religion, poetry and their effects on people's lives may be fascinated by this almost day-to-day account of English priest-poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.

    Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories 2008

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