Jesus

The first story in the volume, Wladislaw's Advent, explores decadent themes familiar to its original publication venue. It depicts an impoverished Polish artist living in the west end of Paris, and his encounter...

A number of poems in this volume express sympathy with the losses and failures of humanity, or address the passage of time. Several concern religious observance: among these are two poems both bearing the title...

The book opens with several stages of preliminary matter. In an opening epistle to five individual Friends, EB says she has not acted out of ambition to be printed or to be popular, but in...

This story delivers a terrific kick. It centres on an unnamed woman who grew up in an oppressively Christian household, kept miserable by the suffering of Christ , whom she calls the Hanged Man. She...

This first novel offers insights into AK 's early beliefs about relationships between men and women. In her eyes, God has allotted [women] greater trials and keener sufferings than men. The idea of woman as...

St Agatha's is a rich urban parish lacking a minister; the supply or temporary preacher assigned to them, an old man in a poor rural parish, goes out in a blizzard to visit a sick...

This collection, wrote Waddell as translator, had no academic justification: it is arbitrary and unrepresentative of any author, or of any age. It reflected her despair during the months when the Second World War ceased...

The volume has two epigraphs: from Nigerian novelist Elechi Amadi and from Rainer Maria Rilke .Roselily presents a young, black, Missippi woman who, with strong misgivings, escapes her impossible circumstances by marrying a...

From a theosophical perspective, AB posits that nations exist not for themselves but as part of a movement towards that great Ideal of Nations as one Family, the Ideal of Universal Peace. She sees...

The point of EW 's book is to relate her religious experiences. She follows a chronological path, interrupting herself on occasion to add something that she forgot to mention in its proper Place.

The title piece, in Spenserian stanzas with an ababccdcc rhyme scheme, depicts Mary Magdalene being cajoled by Salome to seize the day. Mary, the poem's major speaker,                 weep[s] and moan[s]
  For wantonness of feasts and...

Some poems here are again strongly anti-religious. LSB excoriates religious institutions in In and Out of Church, mocking: Heaven to let—to paying lodger;
Ah, you canting devil-dodger,
Damn not us who spurn your...

The first section of Echoes, which comprises nearly ninety percent of the book, includes several poems that describe personal and historical events of importance to the author with fervently religious language. Five of these...

As usual, Millay writes often here of death. In the title poem death, which claims the buck for the sake of his antlers, is set against Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the...

The spiritual director of the nun Margaret Clement the younger seems not to have had much imaginative grasp on this family history, since ES represents him as astonished at the great courage and magnanimity which...