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the last bastion of religion

Poetic Art Marcel critically lauded as an “anBy Paul Claudel Poetic Art is a proclamation of poetic theory, a fiat to the magnificent vocation of deciphering the mysteries of reality through the practice of poetry. Claudel counted Poetic Art among his most valuable writingsdespite its relatively lukewarm critical receptionas it investigates the metaphysics of poetry and its unique power to reveal truths about God, man, and the cosmos. In the words of one scholar and critic, these pages lift us