Dec 2, 2020
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In his 5 Nice Odes, the good French Catholic poet
Paul Claudel (1868-1955) gives a cosmic imaginative and prescient during which man, in
his contemplative and poetic capability, stands as mediator between
God and all creation.
Man, within the picture of God and much more within the headship of
Christ, names all creatures, unites them in his coronary heart, speaks for
them and gives them again to God as unified entire of which man
himself is a component: “I lengthen my palms to left and to proper/in order that
by me not one hole ought to exist within the excellent circle of your
creations.”
Poet James Matthew Wilson compares Claudel’s cosmic and Catholic
imaginative and prescient to that of Tolkien, and startlingly, to one in every of Tolkien’s
characters: “Claudel’s Odes present him to be a brand new
Tom Bombadil, who strikes by way of the world with out irony as a result of he
has already transcended the jaded and impoverished imaginative and prescient typical
of the fashionable age and entered with pleasure into an expertise of the
common and the everlasting.”
That is an interview with Jonathan Geltner, translator of a brand new
English version of Claudel’s Odes.
Hyperlinks
5 Nice Odes https://www.angelicopress.org/five-great-odes
Episode talked about: “Construction and Freedom” with Mark Christopher
Brandt
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/episode-33-structure-and-freedom-in-music-and-in-christ-mark-christopher-brandt/
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