Looking ahead to Memorial Day, I share three Wildred Owen poems where he experiences significant religious doubt after spending time in the World War I trenches.
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Religious Doubt in the Trenches
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The Herbert Poem that Converted Weil
George Herbert’s “Love (3)” prompted a religious breakthrough in French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil.
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