A Spiritual Aeneid Guardini At seventeen

At seventeen

including our own

experimentation

Her other works include the novels The Wild Orchid and The Burning Bush and the historical study Saga of Saints

These poems are not all “Catholic” poems in the sense of “religious” poems

A Spiritual Aeneid Guardini At seventeenBy Ronald Knox As Ronald Knox was preparing to enter the Catholic Church, he took with him, as a spiritual reading traveling companion, Virgils Aeneid. The physical journey of Aeneas toward Rome provided a well polished mirror to the spiritual voyage of Knox to that other, perfect Romethe Eternal City of Christendom. Ingeniously constructed on the Virgillian frame, as Evelyn Waugh writes in his Foreword, A Spiritual Aeneid is Knoxs account of his