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A Catholic Poet
Rorty, James | July 31, 1929 issue

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The article presents information on the book "A Rime of the Rood," by Charles O'Donnell. The New Testament legend of Jesus Christ is poetry. Father O'Donnell, being both a poet and a Catholic priest, accepts this legend. It is safe in his hands, indeed it grows and flowers, nourished by the essentially poetic devotions of all the Christian centuries of Europe. Perhaps because, from the Catholic point of view, O'Donnell is in a state of grace, his book maintains a consistently high level of poetic taste, from which it rises frequently to impressive heights of intense, clear, and beautiful perception.

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RIME of the Rood, A (Book); JESUS Christ; POETRY; CHRISTIANS; CATHOLICS; O'DONNELL, Charles L.
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