This collection of poems reflect religious experience. Written from a basically Christian standpoint or embodying a Christian point of view, they tell readers about the subtly changing pattern of Christian beliefs over almost 1000 years and the varied interpretations of religious thought and experience. There are more than 150 poems, ranging from cheerful medieval verse parables to the works of Milton, Blake and Herbert, Hardy and Hopkins, to T.S. Eliot, Roy Campbell, Ted Hughes and others.

 

This book is part of a book series called Puffin Storybooks .

There are 256 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 1984 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Charles Causley was born in Cornwall, and apart from six years spent in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, lived there all his life. He was one of Britain's foremost poets, writing for both adults and children. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1967 and appointed CBE in 1986. In 1987 he won the Kurt Maschler Award for Jack the Treacle Eater and in 1990 the Ingersoll/T. S. Eliot Award of America. Charles Causley died in 2003. Charles Keeping was the two-time winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal.