Word: maritain
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...critic James Wood has pointed out that the decline of the Bible's authority in the 19th century coincided with the rise of the modern novel. Elie reminds a wistful 21st century reader how urgently books used to matter. Books--by Dante, Blake, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Joyce, Jacques Maritain, Etienne-Henry Gilson and hundreds of others--served as spiritual guides for Elie's quartet in their journeys, shaping them in a life-or-death way that one senses would not be possible...
Heaney employed the work of philosopher Jacques Maritain to break down composition into three parts...
...first, poetic sense, is an instinct particular to poets, a potential for expression, what Maritain called “an inner melody...