Poetic Art Gilson (1864–1914) discerned his vocation at

(1864–1914) discerned his vocation at the age of sixteen after reading Lacordaire’s Life of Saint Dominic

he impresses his neighbors with his quiet strength and generous charity

supplying omitted lines and stanzas to the poems

–François Mauriac

Poetic Art Gilson (1864–1914) discerned his vocation atBy 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