Poems Hales the editor of the American

the editor of the American Ecclesiastical Review

Crowning the collection is “The Freedom of the Spirit

Padraic Colum once wrote

Thomas Davenport

By Ignazio Silone

Poems Hales the editor of the AmericanBy St. John of the Cross Translated by Roy Campbell Preface by Martin Cyril D'Arcy, S. J. Afterword by Conrad Pepler, O. P. The poetry of St. John of the Cross has received almost innumerable accolades. In his Preface to this volume, M. C. DArcy quotes Marcelino Menndez y Pelayo, the remarkable Spanish historian and critic, in praise of the poems of the Mystical Doctor: So sublime is this poetry that it scarcely seems to belong to this world at all;