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Essays on Catholic Life

Essays on Catholic Life

O'Hagan, Thomas

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ISBN10: 1151677701
ISBN13: 9781151677709
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.15 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916. Excerpt: ... THE OFFICE AND FUNCTION OF POETRY Today it would seem that poetry has fallen from its high place; that its office and function have ceased to be understood by the people. No longer does this flowering of the soul, this golden ear of the century, this summit of thought, hold votaries at its altar. Men and women of our day worship at other shrines where burn dimmer but more alluring tapers. Not only has the breath of joy left our meadows and the subsoil of prose been turned up and sown with the seed of science and harrowed into sharp ridges of every-day facts, but the great temple of song, with its glorious symbolic windows and its crowning turrets, its altars of truth and light, its carved niches of grace, its figures and forms of heaven speaking to the heart of each devotee, stands silent by the wayside with scarce a pilgrim at its door or a worshiper bowed before its altar lamps. The poet has, indeed, fallen upon barren times. Yet this is all but a phase of civilization, or rather a psychological index of the attitude of the world of today towards the idealism of the soul. We are living in an eminently material and practical age. The dreams of the artist have given way before the imperious sweep of science and invention; genius in our day is more concerned with the conquest of the air and the subjugation of land and sea and all material forces to the will and purpose of man, than in bodying forth in lofty rhyme or glorifying on canvas or in Carrara marble the light that never was on sea or land--that vision which comes to the soul in moments of inspiration as the gift and dower of God. Still the old gray earth is not wholly without dreamers. From time to time great souls arise to bear aloft the torch and light up the avenues of life and labor, to mak...

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