LOVE LETTERS TO MARY THE VIRGIN, WRITTEN BY POETS OLD AND NEW - BY DR LUKY WHITTLE

 

LOVE LETTERS TO MARY THE VIRGIN

written by poets old and new

A COLLECTION OF MARIAN PRAISE POETRY

CLASSIFIED RESOURCE SUITABLOE

FOR USE IN MARIAN STUDIES

 Dr Whittle gathered Marian poems stemming from the first millennium to the end of the nineteenth century during research. She used “A ring-Decorated Maiden” from the quill of Cynewulf as the Marian poem to represent the genre of Marian poetry as it appeared in the first millennium AD. 

A number of mediaeval English lyrics in praise of Mary are included in this volume. One or two examples from the pen of more generally known later poets such as Robert Southwell, John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Patrick Kavanagh have likewise been incorporated.

Overall, however, the vast majority of the poems included in this collection were composed by often anonymous American nun-poets, mainly during the second quarter of the twentieth century. Further examples of their Marian poetry as well as that of many others may be found in the files of the Marian Library at Dayton Ohio.

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