Things As They Are Art and Poetry Naughton & Introduction by Jonathan

Naughton & Introduction by Jonathan Reyes

” through New England Transcendentalism and the American takes on idealism and realism

and Christianity

Paperback & E-book: 220pp

Things As They Are Art and Poetry Naughton & Introduction by JonathanBy Paul Horgan In early twentieth century New York, a young boy enjoys a happy, ordinary childhood. Then, one by one, Richard sees his childhood securities crumble before the pitiless facts of a fallen world: the wanton cruelty of other children, the inconstancy of the grown ups and inscrutability of their world, the overwhelming otherness of God, and the seemingly indomitable capacity in himself for sin. Things As They Are draws its thematic power