The Catholic Literary Revival Education and In This House of

and In This House of Brede

and an Appendix with supplementary poetry

ISBN: 978-1944418083

As Jacques Maritain writes in the Preface

the throb of a definite purpose in human life

The Catholic Literary Revival Education and In This House ofBy Calvert Alexander, S. J. Christopher Dawson once diagnosed the modern decline in faith as due not so much to a change of belief as to a change of attentiona turning away of the mind from spiritual to temporal things. In this sweeping treatment of Catholic literary history, Calvert Alexander, S. J., traces the development of Catholic literature and enumerates its effects in returning the mind to the spiritual order. Focusing on the output of English