There is not an abundance of information on our next poet’s life. Rowland Watkyns (c. 1614-1664) was a Welshman and the Anglican vicar of Llanfrynach. His one known published work was a collection of poems … Rowland Watkyns, “Upon Christ’s Nativity”Read more
Spirituality
Robert Southwell’s “New Heaven, New Warre”
In our previous post we discussed how the poets Harry Morris and Sister M. Madeleva drew a line connecting the wood of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil with the wood of … Robert Southwell’s “New Heaven, New Warre”Read more
Wood, Trees, Christmas and Salvation
As far back as Irenaeus of Lyon (AD 120-202) and probably earlier, Christians have drawn parallels between the sin of man having come by means of eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of the … Wood, Trees, Christmas and SalvationRead more
Luci Shaw, “Mary’s Song”
I actually have had some correspondence with our next Christmas poet, Luci Shaw (b. 1928). Several years ago I sent her some doggerel that I hoped she would praise ecstatically. In an act of kindness … Luci Shaw, “Mary’s Song”Read more
Ben Jonson’s Carol
One of the richest treasures of the Christian church and actually for Western civilization is the poetry written about the birth of Christ and the doctrine of the Incarnation it points to. I thought that … Ben Jonson’s CarolRead more
