Charles LaPorte is Professor of English at the University of Washington and the author of two excellent books on the intersection of literature and religion: Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible, published in 2011, and, just this year, The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare: Bardology in the Nineteenth Century. We discuss ways that nineteenth-century readers engaged Shakespeare as they would sacred texts – and how that approach continues to describe literary studies even in our secular age.
The concluding poem from Jane Clark Scharl’s 2024 debut collection Ponds addresses the risk God takes in creating a world that can be almost...
Micah Mattix is poetry editor at First Things and professor of English at Regent University in Virginia. He has published a book of essays...
John Gatta is professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut and University of the South, Sewanee. At that latter institution he held,...
