God's Spies: Michelangelo, Shakespeare and Other Poets of Vision

Paul Murray OP teaches the literature of the mystical tradition at the Angelicum University, Rome, Italy.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Paradise on Earth: Early Irish Nature Poetry and the Canticle of Francis of AssisiChapter 2: ‘I am Myself Alone’: Shakespeare and the Human CasualtyChapter 3: A Man Talking: The Prayer and Poetry of Charles PéguyChapter 4: ‘Beauty, my Enemy’: Passion and Piety at War in the Poetry of MichelangeloChapter 5: Apocalyptic Visions: The Poetry of Nature and the CrossChapter 6: God’s Spy: Shakespeare and Religious VisionChapter 7: At the Threshold of Wonder: Poetry and Religion, Friends or Foes?Finally Comes the Poet: Afterword

Differently, but every bit as gripping as God’s Secret Agents, God’s Spies is a great achievement, and a gift for readers interested in the characteristically beautiful and surprising, charming and disarming, interplay between poetry and religion.