Things As They Are Art and Poetry The Cypresses Believe in God

The Cypresses Believe in God is a work of singular standing for its harmony of historical actuality and artistic liberty

” through New England Transcendentalism and the American takes on idealism and realism

Paperback & E-book: 220pp

first published in 1928

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Things As They Are Art and Poetry The Cypresses Believe in GodBy Paul Horgan In early twentieth century New York, a young boy enjoys a happy, ordinary childhood. Then, one by one, Richard sees his childhood securities crumble before the pitiless facts of a fallen world: the wanton cruelty of other children, the inconstancy of the grown ups and inscrutability of their world, the overwhelming otherness of God, and the seemingly indomitable capacity in himself for sin. Things As They Are draws its thematic power