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Poems - Volume 2 (Paperback)
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Poems - Volume 2 (Paperback)
Series: Fathers of the Church Series
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The poems of Aurelius Prudentius appear in two volumes of the
present series, i.e., Volume 43 and this volume, 52. It cannot be
said that poetry, in a literary sense, truly prospered in Christian
surroundings. However, the greatest of the Latin Christian poets
was the present author, who was born in any one of the three
cities: Tarragona, Saragossa, and Calahorra. Modern scholarship
favors Calahorra. Any estimate of Prudentius must include a
recognition of certain defects in his works, notably the length and
prolixity of his hymns, the crude realism in his descriptions of
the torments of the martyrs, the long declamatory speeches, the
unreality of his allegory, and his excessive use of alliteration
and assonance. Though his writings as a whole cannot be ranked
among those of the great poetry in many instances. Prudentius has a
technical skill surpassing that of the other Christian Latin poets.
He is the creator of the Christian ode and the Christian allegory.
He has something of the epic power of Virgil and the lyric beauty
and variety of Horace. Prudentius has still greater claims to
greatness, however, in the Christian thought and inspiration of his
poetry. A recent critic has declared with truth that Prudentius is
'first a Catholic and only in the second place a poet.' His faith
is that of the Nicene Creed. In his poetry, Prudentius celebrates
the triumph of Christianity over paganism. He saw the Church
emerging from its three-hundred-year struggle against the forces if
idolatry and heresy, triumphant through its saving doctrine and the
blood of its martyrs. He saw the magnificent basilicas, both in
Spain and in Rome, rising in the place of the pagan temples. As an
historian of Christian thought and culture at the end of the fourth
century, Prudentius cannot be overestimated.
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