Poets & Mystics McNabb with special attention to the

with special attention to the interplay of grace and nature in the pursuit of beatitude

its sublime idealism: would not one willingly die to make that known and loved

Hugh Gillespie

and with an Introduction by Anthony Giambrone

Poets & Mystics McNabb with special attention to theBy E. I. Watkin Poets & Mystics addresses areas of interest in theology, philosophy, and aesthetics by critical examination of the lives and works of selected writers and visionaries. E. I. Watkin surveys the Cambridge Platonism of John Smith, the controversial mysticism of Margery Kempe (at whose defense he staunchly stands); the verses of Ruth Pitter (a voice of traditional poeticism amidst the formal experimentation of the Modernists); and the