"James Matthew Wilson makes the everyday lyrically urgent and memorable. Few poets writing today do so with such unfailing elegance, close attention to the human world, and generosity of spirit."
"James Matthew Wilson makes the everyday lyrically urgent and memorable. Few poets writing today do so with such unfailing elegance, close attention to the human world, and generosity of spirit."
The Vision of the Soul Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Western Tradition by JamesMatthewWilson, Not Available Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2017 by Catholic Univ Of Amer Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8132-2928-7, ISBN: 0-8132-2928-6
"Ours is an age full of desires but impoverished in its understanding of where those desires lead-an age that claims mastery over the world but also claims to find the world as a whole absurd or unintelligible. In The Vision of the Soul, James Matthew Wilson seeks to conserve the great insights of the western tradition by giving us a new account of them responsive to modern discontents. The western- or Christian Platonist- tradition, he ..."
"“In The Hanging God, James Matthew Wilson mines the landscape of contemporary American life for images to reflect its moral ravages. Raw in their affective power, Wilson’s narratives avoid ambiguity in matters of faith without sacrificing complexity of feeling, compassion, and self-examination. Strippers, divorcees, corporate accountants move among dumpsters, barrooms, bedfellows, beer bottles, and Excel spreadsheets, while the poet exa ..."
"This brilliant new book powerfully demonstrates how the evolution of Modern and Post-Modern criticism and theory, free verse, and political ideology have greatly diminished contemporary poetry."
Some Permanent Things(2nd Revised and Expanded ed.) (Hardcover) by JamesMatthewWilson Hardcover, 162 Pages, Published 2022 by Wiseblood Books ISBN-13: 978-1-951319-48-9, ISBN: 1-951319-48-6
"In this Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, Wilson has completely revised the poems to attain a more classical perfection. Includes new poems collected as "The Christmas Preface.""
The Hanging God (Hardback) by JamesMatthewWilson Hardcover, 106 Pages, Published 2018 by Angelico Press 2018-09-25 ISBN-13: 978-1-62138-410-6, ISBN: 1-62138-410-1
"In The Hanging God, James Matthew Wilson mines the landscape of contemporary American life for images to reflect its moral ravages."
"In The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking, James Matthew Wilson demolishes the bankruptcy and pretension of much contemporary poetry and literary scholarship. Though he offers many illustrations of the sometimes hilarious absurdities that have overtaken our literary culture, he does not settle for mere criticism or mirth. Rather, Wilson's study offers us nothing less than a renewed philosophy of poetry and literary criticism, on ..."
"In this Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, Wilson has completely revised the poems to attain a more classical perfection and restored their original published ordering as four sequences, beginning with "The Violent and the Fallen," "Four Verse Letters," and "La Rochefoucauld's Ghost," and culminating in the new poems collected as "The Christmas Preface." Advance Praise for Some Permanent Things"This is James Matthew Wilson's first fu ..."
"The volume begins with the prospects for an unborn child soon to enter our stormy world and concludes with a "Farewell" to the place, home, and setting of many of these poems."
Catholic Modernism and the Irish Avant-Garde The Achievement of Brian Coffey, Denis Devlin, and Thomas Macgreevy (Paperback or Softback) by JamesMatthewWilson Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2024 by The Catholic University Of America Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8132-3763-3, ISBN: 0-8132-3763-7
"... Coffey's philosophical studies more gen- erally , played in the composition of Third Person , but this has almost ... Alex Davis's important discussion of Maritain's philosophy of art as a source for Coffey's later poetry - on which I ..."
"These thirty-three poems that cast light into the darkness and promise to wake readers from their spiritual apathy, selected by Clinton Collister and Daniel Rattelle, reflect on the permanent things that make life worth living. Shouldn’t poetry invite us into a tradition that unites us with the living, the dead, and the unborn? Shouldn’t poetry move us with music, meaning and story? Ranging from James Matthew Wilson and Marly Youmans to ..."
Harlem Shadows The Poems of Claude McKay (Paperback) by Claude Mckay Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2021 by Angelico Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62138-709-1, ISBN: 1-62138-709-7
ANAMNESIS Journal A Journal for the Study of Tradition, Place, and 'Things Divine' (Volume 4) by Dr. Peter D. Haworth Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2015 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN-13: 978-1-5171-8862-7, ISBN: 1-5171-8862-8
"T. S. Eliot was raised in the Unitarian faith of his family in St. Louis but drifted away from their beliefs while studying philosophy, mysticism, and anthropology at Harvard. During a year in Paris (1910-1911), he became involved with a group of Catholic writers there and subsequently went through a gradual conversion to Catholic Christianity. He surprised his brother during a visit to Rome in 1926, when he fell to his knees at St. Pet ..."
"T. S. Eliot was raised in the Unitarian faith of his family in St. Louis but drifted away from their beliefs while studying philosophy, mysticism, and anthropology at Harvard. During a year in Paris, he became involved with a group of Catholic writers and subsequently went through a gradual conversion to Catholic Christianity. Many studies of Eliot's writings have mentioned his religious beliefs, but most have failed to give the topic d ..."
Poetry and Mysticism (Paperback) by Raïssa Maritain, Raã Ssa Paperback, 52 Pages, Published 2022 by Wiseblood Books, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-951319-55-7, ISBN: 1-951319-55-9