Great Christian Poems Teach Priceless Lessons About Life. I hope to live the life of virtue that great poetry inspires. Raffaelo Sorbi, “Dante Meets Beatrice,” 1903 (photo: Public Domain) ...

Later Christian poetry often depicts Christ as a victim for the sins of humanity. But the Rood poet depicts Christ as a warrior, like some Anglo-Saxon prince engaging the enemy in single combat.

Today’s poem, “Christ’s Nativity,” illustrates the posthumous influence of the Anglican poet-divine George Herbert (1593–1633) on his Welsh disciple Henry Vaughan (1621–1695). Vaughan was only twelve ...

A meteor from the universe of Wystan Hugh Auden flashed into the atmosphere of American culture in 1994 when “Funeral Blues,” a poem written in 1936, was recited in a eulogy scene in the movie Three ...

The poem “Grand mother’s Living Room” gives a powerful sense of O’Donnell’s childhood, lived literally and figuratively atop open mine shafts that might at any moment collapse. Yet there’s a restraint ...

In his new anthology, Joy: 100 Poems, the writer Christian Wiman takes readers through the ostensible ordinariness of life and reveals the extraordinary. “We ate, and talked, and went to bed ...

Every Riven Thing: Poems Christian Wiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 112 pages, $24 “Come, ye philosophers who cry ‘All’s well,’ / And contemplate this ruin of a world,” wrote the French ...

Christian Wiman: I have found it a relief to not be talking about God and found it helpful to take that word out of circulation for a bit. I almost feel like it would be helpful for us as a culture if ...

Every Riven Thing: Poems Christian Wiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 112 pages, $24 “Come, ye philosophers who cry ‘All’s well,’ / And contemplate this ruin of a world,” wrote the French ...