Things As They Are Art and Poetry then is the light of

then is the light of the world gone out

Unfortunately

To tell the story of that mission and appraise its success is the work of Cuthbert Butler in his two-volume study

Paperback & E-book: 220pp

This volume includes the last seven chapters of that work

Things As They Are Art and Poetry then is the light ofBy 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