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Can anybody recommend particular volumes of French Catholic poetry? I am specifically looking for Catholic poetry with emotional fervor and beauty -- it is to be a gift to a non-Catholic who once considered conversion but has abandoned the idea (even while being attracted to the aesthetic). I do not read or speak a word of French myself, but nevertheless I am looking for the poetry to be read in the original French.
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I've heard good things about Paul Claudel, but my French is unfortunately insufficient to properly appreciate good poetry.
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(09-03-2009, 11:31 PM)Cyriacus Wrote: I've heard good things about Paul Claudel, but my French is unfortunately insufficient to properly appreciate good poetry.
I had Claudel in mind, and wondered if Joris-Karl Huysmans wrote any poetry. Paul Verlaine maybe, but only some from his Catholic years would be appropriate, and I don't know him well enough to pick and choose myself.
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(09-04-2009, 12:26 AM)Miquelot Wrote: (09-03-2009, 11:31 PM)Cyriacus Wrote: I've heard good things about Paul Claudel, but my French is unfortunately insufficient to properly appreciate good poetry.
I had Claudel in mind, and wondered if Joris-Karl Huysmans wrote any poetry. Paul Verlaine maybe, but only some from his Catholic years would be appropriate, and I don't know him well enough to pick and choose myself.
When I was young and fresh I memorized several poems of Claudel in Hungarian translation, there are deeply Catholic. Also from Claudel the Satin Slippers a play, is available in English translations.
As for Huysmans he converted in 1895, I do not think that anything he wrote before that time is considered Catholic.
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Perhaps something by
Charles Péguy?
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