{"product_id":"the-wayward-thomist-a-critical-introduction-to-john-martin-finlay-paperback-1","title":"The Wayward Thomist: A Critical Introduction to John Martin Finlay - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Matthew Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Martin Finlay was a poet and essayist critically acclaimed but little known during his short life. A Catholic convert but also an early victim of the AIDS virus, he wrote his greatest work while under a death sentence, struggling to cultivate an intellect modeled after his masters, Yvor Winters, Allen Tate, and Saint Thomas Aquinas. In this first-ever full-length study of Finlay's life and work, James Matthew Wilson guides us through Finlay's career as scholar and poet to introduce us to Finlay's compelling mind, profound influences, and rough-hewn masterpieces. We meet in these pages a Southern Agrarian, austere classicist, and wayward Thomist-a minor poet of major ambitions whom every American should read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Martin Finlay, one of the most fascinating literary talents of the Eighties, has remained criminally overlooked both by scholarship and the public-partly due to tragic personal circumstances, partly due to his determination to put spiritual rigor before vapid fashionability. This volume is a noble and able effort to fill in this conspicuous chink in the canon. To do justice to the theologically fierce verse and criticism of Finlay requires not only a sensitivity to poetic craftsmanship, but expertise across many subjects: Wintersian criticism, Catholic doctrine, Thomism, Gnosticism, Platonism, Southern Literature, and Western intellectual history-whose erudition but James Matthew Wilson's could rise to this challenge? And rise Wilson does, providing an incisive, painstakingly fair assessment of the life and work of this \u003cem\u003epoète maudit\u003c\/em\u003e who heroically strove to grasp a wholesome, hypostatic vision of the world, and thereby proved himself an exemplar for the progress of the modern soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Elijah Blumov, host of \u003cem\u003eVersecraft\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 76\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.16 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47572038156509,"sku":"9781963319859","price":15.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/PNr3jQ-xLe9781963319859_84af8e9a-1900-4238-b56d-9cf64469b90d.webp?v=1773385102","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-wayward-thomist-a-critical-introduction-to-john-martin-finlay-paperback-1","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}