Comments for In Praise of Paul Claudel at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 13 out of 13 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:31:14 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/in-praise-of-paul-claudel.html#comment-12546 I had to wait to get home to visit family so I could share my favorites because for me poetry will always be tied up with my experience as a child listening to my father read us poetry at night and while I remembered the cadence of his voice, I didn't remember the exact words or poets so I conferred with my elder sister. The two that i remember most were the "Hound of Heaven"by Francis Thompson (Grump!) and "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna" by Charles Wolfe. If you could have just heard my father read both of them you would understand. Fathers, read poetry to your children; they will never forget the experience! HOpe this is not too late as a post. - Louise Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:45:10 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/in-praise-of-paul-claudel.html#comment-12386 Khalil Gibran is basically "high church" Jonathan Livingston Seagull... Just because the author was Maronite rite doesn't mean his work is--that's why he's been a favorite of countless new age crackpots. If he wrote the faith, he never would have caught on in those circles... - Scott W Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:58:21 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/in-praise-of-paul-claudel.html#comment-12356 Khalil Gibran or Roy Campbell for sure. The first is simply magical, while the second is so wild and his translations are wonderful (though perhaps he’s a bit too blunt for his own good in his many satires) - Addie Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:33:16 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/in-praise-of-paul-claudel.html#comment-12355 Father Raymond Roseliep's haiku have given more pleasure and appreciation of the gift of being alive than all the aforementioned. - poetcomic1 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:06:29 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/in-praise-of-paul-claudel.html#comment-12349 Claudel might be my favorite poet too, although I appreciated this Thompson's Hound of Heaven. - Dana Tue, 10 Jul 2012 02:32:45 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/in-praise-of-paul-claudel.html#comment-12348 Khalil Gibran. A Catholic Maronite from Lebanon, who resided in NYC for much of his life, and whose "The Prophet" was on NY Times list of Top Ten Books of all time (along with The Bible). His prose is full of wisdom and elevates it's eyes to God in it's simplicity and truth. Or does one have to be white and from the west to be considered "great" in this article? - Ez Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:11:56 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/in-praise-of-paul-claudel.html#comment-12344 Unfortunately, Royal's piece is too typical in this genre of talking about Catholic literature. One is pressed to find a single literary, much less properly poetic criterion for assessing why Claudel is the greatest POET. He comes close in suggesting the way he is able to speak in divine terms of the everyday, but this is not self-evidently a poetic virtue; and if it be a characteristic of (certain) moderns, it still does not establish why Claudel is "great." - critic maudit Mon, 09 Jul 2012 19:03:56 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/in-praise-of-paul-claudel.html#comment-12343 Sir: I too love Claudel, and you have goaded me into finding my copy of L'annonce fait a Marie, and actually reading it this time. After all the Sartre, Camus and Malraux, and the other authors who made you want to slit your wrists in college, I feel that I was shortchanged in my French language major education. My Jesuit college professors studiously avoided les vrais auteurs catholiques du temps contemporain, and the profoundly important analysis of their thought. I love Chesterton's, the Donkey, which I can't declaim without choking up. The wit of Kipling's, The Betrothed is without equal. But my current favorite Catholic poet is Alice Meynell, for her "Maternity". Please everyone read it, if you don't know it. It is utterly transcendant. Thank you for an excellent article and important ideas about M. Claudel and his thought. - Art Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:19:31 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/in-praise-of-paul-claudel.html#comment-12337 I love Claudel's works, but lately my nod would go to Genevieve Glen,OSB. - John N. Mon, 09 Jul 2012 08:59:57 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/in-praise-of-paul-claudel.html#comment-12332 Don't know if he was Catholic, but throw Francis Thompson in the mix if only for "Hound of Heaven." That poem haunts this crusty old agnostic. - Grump Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:53:47 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/in-praise-of-paul-claudel.html#comment-12331 Much as I love Claudel, Charles Péguy gets my vote, if only for « Le Mystère de la charité de Jeanne d'Arc » - Michael Paterson-Seymour Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:50:17 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/in-praise-of-paul-claudel.html#comment-12326 Bach v. Mozart? No contest. Amadeus 1 Beethoven 1A. Throw in all the Italians ending in "i", Rachmaninoff, Chopin and you have a Top 10. - Grump Mon, 09 Jul 2012 04:17:00 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/in-praise-of-paul-claudel.html#comment-12321 Readers of the little magazine Magnificat will be familiar with frequent selections from Claudel's "I Believe in God: A Meditation of the Apostles' Creed." It does seem to be an odd situation currently in the arts where Catholic non-fiction literature excels (Mr Robert Royal, for example) but we don't seem to be excelling in fiction, poetry, music or film. Some months ago, out of deep frustration over this, I prayed to God about it. I recently discovered a Polish Catholic comtemporary choir/ musical group of the first class: Deus Meus. Their music displays musicianship and singing of high quality with beautiful lyrics of praise and thanksgiving. It's worth learning a little Polish to enjoy this music. The Holy Spirit is moving and I believe we will see another flowering of the Catholic arts. - Randall Sun, 08 Jul 2012 20:17:35 +0100