Poems and Prose

Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his creative violence and insistence on the sound of poetry, the author was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Jesuit order the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to write no more, as not belonging to my profession, unless by the wishes of my superiors'.

Mai aproape de Dylan Thomas decat de Matthew Arnold, prin violenta sa creativa si insistenta asupra sunetului poeziei, autorul nu a fost un victorian conventional si staruitor. La intrarea in ordinul iezuit la varsta de douazeci si patru de ani, si-a ars toata poezia si ,,s-a hotarat sa nu mai scrie, ca nefiind din profesia mea, decat din dorinta superiorilor mei".