Modern Poetry and the Christian Tradition: A Study in the Relation of Christianity to Culture (Amos Wilder Library)

Description: In Modern Poetry and the Christian Tradition Wildler examines this movement in poetry in relation to the direction in which our culture is moving. He interprets the significance of modern poetry and shows its relation to the traditional. He gives attention to the representative poets of our time (including Dylan Thomas Gerard Manley Hopkins Allen Tate W. H. Auden Wallace Stevens T. S. Eliot and others); he notes the wider implications of their work and assesses from them the impulses and trends of our age. As a poet of considerable ability as a student of literary criticism for many years and as a teacher Wilder is in a position to know and understand his subject. The result is a book of permanent value to all concerned with the deeper meanings of civilization and Christianity.