A Place for Poetry in the Fostering of Spirituality

Author: 
William R T Anderson

Canon Anderson reports on his practice of leading his students into the depth of their subjects through drawing their attention to specific works of poetry, not least when the subject is the preparation of the sermon. In the course of this he quotes generously from the poets and shows something of his own appreciation and alliance of poets from earlier centuries to the present day.

Reference: 
Volume 44 2008/9, p14
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William Anderson, a First Class graduate in Classics from the University of Cambridge, is a retired priest in the Roman Catholic Church and a Canon in the Diocese of Aberdeen. Since ordination in 1960 he has held a variety of teaching and pastoral posts, latterly in Aberdeen, and he was for eight years a Producer for the Religious Department of BBC Scotland. In 1980 he won the Poetry Society Gold Medal for verse-speaking, and was The Times and College of Preachers’ Preacher of the Year in 1996.