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A critical and literary-religious study. The author offers novel readings of some of Hopkins' most celebrated poems in the light of historical and structuralist understanding of the poetic tradition and the Western religious and liturgical tradition in which Hopkins was steeped.

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In the last three decades, scores of books have been published on the role of the Vatican in the modern world. Popes and Politics shows that many recent authors, whether devoted or antagonistic to the papacy, have been guilty of factual disstortions and biased interpretations that lead to a flawed picture of the church and its relation to contemporary society.