Things As They Are Art and Poetry Eventually

Eventually

” through New England Transcendentalism and the American takes on idealism and realism

Paperback & E-book: 220pp

then is the light of the world gone out

Things As They Are Art and Poetry EventuallyBy Paul Horgan In early twentieth century New York, a young boy enjoys a happy, ordinary childhood. Then, one by one, Richard sees his childhood securities crumble before the pitiless facts of a fallen world: the wanton cruelty of other children, the inconstancy of the grown ups and inscrutability of their world, the overwhelming otherness of God, and the seemingly indomitable capacity in himself for sin. Things As They Are draws its thematic power