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Jacques Maritain

Nonfiction

Spring 1942

Poetry’s Dark Night¹

By Jacques Maritain

The very career of the word “poetry” seems to me highly instructive. Only at a comparatively recent time has this word come to designate the poetry: previously it signified the […]