SOME PARADOXES OF RELIGIOUS POETRY.

The article focuses on the topics addressed by the author at a forum on poetry and devotion at the 16th Century Studies Conference in the fall of 2008 in Saint Louis, Missouri. It explores the paradoxes in Christian poetry. It cites several literary works including "Aeneid," by Virgil, "Inferno," by Dante and the poem "I never lost as much but twice," by Emily Dickinson.