Braiding the Voices: Essays in Poetry by Peter Steele John Leonard Press, 2012, 250 pages, $34.95 There is a long tradition in English literature of the priest-poet. It begins more or less with John Skelton, who, on the eve of the Reformation, managed simultaneously to satirise while embodying much that the Reformation would seek to dislodge in English Christianity. An anti-clerical poet, Skelton enjoyed the privileges of the clerical class. A priest who flouted the laws of clerical celibacy by taking a wife and proudly fathering a child while continuing to serve as a priest, he was as far from…
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