Poems 2022 “A sense of solitude

“A sense of solitude

Musurillo’s writings include Symbolism and the Christian Imagination and Acts of the Pagan Martyrs

and his contentions with Luther

are ordained of God

his writings include A Sign of Contradiction

Poems 2022 “A sense of solitudeBy St. John of the Cross Translated by Roy Campbell Preface by Martin Cyril D'Arcy, S. J. Afterword by Conrad Pepler, O. P. The poetry of St. John of the Cross has received almost innumerable accolades. In his Preface to this volume, M. C. DArcy quotes Marcelino Menndez y Pelayo, the remarkable Spanish historian and critic, in praise of the poems of the Mystical Doctor: So sublime is this poetry that it scarcely seems to belong to this world at all;