The Light of Hope in Darkness
"Dense Poems and Socratic Light": The Poetry of John Martin Finlay (1941–1991)
edited by David Middleton and John P. Doucet
Wiseblood Books, 2020
(278 pages, $18.99, paperback)
"With Constant Light": The Collected Essays and Reviews with Selections from the Diaries and Other Prose of John Martin Finlay (1941–1991)
edited by David Middleton and John P. Doucet
Wiseblood Books, 2020
(368 pages, $15.00, paperback)
reviewed by R. V. Young
We often say that a poet—or some other artist—ought to be better known. In the case of John Martin Finlay, the statement is true; and the fact that he is not better known tells us a great deal about the . . .
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R. V. Young is Professor of English Emeritus at North Carolina State University, and a former editor of Modern Age: A Quarterly Review. His Shakespeare & the Idea of Western Civilization is forthcoming in January from Catholic University of America Press. He and his wife are parishioners at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Dunedin, Florida. They have five grown children, 15 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. He is a contributing editor of Touchstone.
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