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The poetic waters run deep in Jane Clark Scharl’s Ponds

April 21, 2024 Shawn Phillip Cooper, PhD 2

In early 2023, Jane Clark Scharl debuted her verse drama Sonnez Les Matines to appreciative audiences in New York City. The ability to sustain a successful drama in verse—and good verse, at that—was a worthy testament […]

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The little known woman behind the great Papal hymn “What Fairer Light?”

June 29, 2021 Catholic News Agency 1

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Denver Newsroom, Jun 29, 2021 / 06:45 am (CNA).
Written in the fifth century and translated into English by Anglican convert Fr. Ronald Knox, the ce… […]

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Virtuosity and verse at the service of the imaginative vision

March 1, 2019 Frank Wilson 4

James Matthew Wilson’s intriguing and intricate new collection of poetry begins with an epigraph in which James George Frazer, author of The Golden Bough, suggests that the Jewish festival Purim, with its destruction of an […]

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