Poetry Project VII: “A Prayer for My Daughter,” by W.B. Yeats
This is the seventh and final installment of a project that H.E. Bishop Williamson and I worked on a number of years ago. You can find other installments in the series in the sidebar. ...
Tagged: Romanticism
Poetry Project IV: “Tintern Abbey”, by William Wordsworth
This is the fourth installment of the occasional poetry series. The analysis is written by Bishop Richard Williamson. The others have been on Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur”, Shelley’s “Ozymandias”, and Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian...
Poetry Project III: “God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
(This is the third installment of the occasional poetry series. The others have been on Shelley’s “Ozymandias” and Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”. -S.H.) This also appeared as Eleison Comments LXXXVI in the Bishop’s weekly...
Poetry Project II: Ode on a Grecian Urn, by John Keats
This is the second in an occasional series. The previous one was on Ozymandias. If poetry is a romantic pastime, and if a poet is a dreamy young man who conjures up in flowery...
Poetry Project I: Ozymandias, by P.B. Shelley
Some time ago I asked Bishop Williamson some questions about various poems and poets and asked if we could put together a series giving a Catholic perspective on poetry. The Bishop really dove in...
