Risking Enchantment is a discussion about beauty in art and culture, and its place in the Catholic faith. The show is hosted by Rachel Sherlock, and she is joined every week by a friend to dive into a particular theme or topic. We discuss literature, music, poetry, art, architecture and more, and talk about how experiencing these can hint at the transcendental and better inform our Catholic faith and how we live it out.
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Risking Enchantment is a discussion about beauty in art and culture, and its place in the Catholic faith. The show is hosted by Rachel Sherlock, and she is joined every week by a friend to dive into a particular theme or topic. We discuss literature, music, poetry, art, architecture and more, and talk about how experiencing these can hint at the transcendental and better inform our Catholic faith and how we live it out.
Poetic Vision: The Catholic Case for Everyday Poetry
Risking Enchantment
1 hour 14 minutes 55 seconds
1 year ago
Poetic Vision: The Catholic Case for Everyday Poetry
Welcome back to Risking Enchantment! For our first episode of 2024, Rachel and Phoebe discuss the place that poetry has in our everyday lives, its importance in our faith, and why it’s good to learn poetry by heart. We highlight some of the poems that have been most impactful in our lives and spotlight some of the great resources for Catholics interested in poetry today.
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Works Mentioned:
“Have it by Heart”, The Spectator by Douglas Murray
“Influences”, The Boston Review by Seamus Heaney
“Christianity and Poetry”, First Things by Dana Gioia
100 Great Catholic Poems by Sally Read
“America, and Fall, Needs Poetry”, The American Conservative by Katya Sedgwick
“Should Catholics care about poetry?”, Catholic News Agency, by Mary Farrow
“Catholics Need Poetry” Word on Fire by Andrew Tolkmith
Wiseblood Books
“The Integral Humanism of Poetry,” Evangelisation and Culture by James Matthew Wilson
Poems Referenced:
“The Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
“A Christmas Childhood” by Patrick Kavanagh
“Wind” by Ted Hughes
“Advent” by Patrick Kavanagh
“Little Gidding” by T.S. Eliot
Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost
“The Road not Taken” by Robert Frost
“Oíche Nollaig na mBan” by Seán Ó Ríordáin
“‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
“Ceasefire” by Michael Longely
“The Wasteland” by T.S. Eliot
Risking Enchantment
Risking Enchantment is a discussion about beauty in art and culture, and its place in the Catholic faith. The show is hosted by Rachel Sherlock, and she is joined every week by a friend to dive into a particular theme or topic. We discuss literature, music, poetry, art, architecture and more, and talk about how experiencing these can hint at the transcendental and better inform our Catholic faith and how we live it out.
