Catholic Poets

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Francis Thompson's "The Hound of Heaven"


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That's one of my all time favourite poems.

[extraterrestrial]

John Henry Newman

http://www.newmanreader.org/works/verses/index.html

[Innocent]

I'm not sure that these people count as full-fledged poets, but

Cardinal Newman tried his hand at poetry with [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_Gerontius_%28poem%29"]The Dream of Gerontius[/url] and some of his other poems are [url="http://www.poemhunter.com/john-henry-newman-cardinal/"]listed on Poemhunter.[/url]

[url="http://www.talkingabouttolkien.com/e_poetry.html"]Tolkien[/url] wrote [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien_bibliography#Poetry"]a few poems[/url], though I suppose they were not his main interest. (Anyway, I'm a bit surprised MithLuin hasn't mentioned JRRT.)

Maurice Francis Egan, who wrote the engaging Confessions of a Book-Lover, also published [url="http://www.archive.org/details/songsandsonnets03egangoog"]a book of poetry[/url]. (Review of his book from [url="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00917FD3B5515738DDDAE0994DC405B8385F0D3"]the NYT archives[/url].)

Since Belloc and GKC have been mentioned, I thought I'd mention [url="http://archives.nd.edu/episodes/visitors/rhb/bensonv.htm"]Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson[/url], too.

[Nihil Obstat]

Hilaire Belloc.

From his writings:


"The world is full of double beds
And most delightful maidenheads,
Which being so, there’s no excuse
For sodomy or self-abuse."

[Vincent Vega]

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Hilaire Belloc.

From his writings:


"The world is full of double beds
And most delightful maidenheads,
Which being so, there’s no excuse
For sodomy or self-abuse."
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