Literary Distractions Victor White is Assistant Professor of English

is Assistant Professor of English at Benedictine College in Atchison

“These three remain

When we look at the power for action which the Church displayed in the Dark Ages

Hailed as “Claudel’s single greatest achievement” and “the most remarkable of his dramas

to the very heart of God

Literary Distractions Victor White is Assistant Professor of EnglishBy Ronald Knox The written word was but the score of a musical composition; there must be no sentence which was not worthy of being read aloud. Monsignor Ronald Knox wrote these words in homage to Robert Louis Stevenson. Well might he have written them of himself, for the principles he proposes were invariably brought to life in his own writing: his sermons, retreat conferences, detective stories, Scripture translationsand the seventeen essays in