Faith And Culture Lecture At Villanova University

On September 17 Villanova University and its Department of Humanities presented its annual Faith and Culture Lecture.  The speaker was Boston College Professor Paul Mariani, author of six volumes of poetry and five biographies of other poets. His most recent biography, Viking, 2008, is titled, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A Life, and it has received wide acclaim as the definitive and magisterial telling of the life of this enigmatic Victorian poet, a contemporary of Walt Whitman and Thomas Hardy, virtually unknown in his own time in Victorian England, and now recognized as one of the towering and most influential voices in modern poetry.