"There has never been a newer, bolder thinker than Coventry Patmore
(or one who was a greater artist at the same time), and he has done
more than anyone else to open, finally, the immense domains of
Religion to Art."--Paul Claudel
Published just a year before his death, these essays and
aphorisms were the final flowering of Coventry Patmore's
extraordinary vision.
The writers of the 19th-century Catholic Literary Revival, of
whom Patmore was an outstanding representative, were in search of
the whole of reality, and awoke a renewed appreciation of the
importance of symbols as a vehicle of metaphysical and doctrinal
truth. As Stratford Caldecott indicates in his Foreword to this
volume, "many of these truths concern the relation between man and
woman, and here Patmore] anticipates in many respects the Theology
of the Body of Pope John Paul II--a theology grounded in the
Trinity, and based on the analogies between the love of the soul
for God, the love of God for mankind, and the love between man and
woman."
The transfiguring power of love, both human and divine, is the
theme that runs right through The Rod, the Root, and the Flower.
Herbert Read compared it to Pascal's Pensees, and Caldecott adds
that "here we see a fullness of Catholic wisdom that is not
exceeded by any other representative of the Revival, and one that
speaks to our age as much as it did to his own, opening vistas
within the Word of God that remain incompletely explored even
today."
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