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Ungumming the ‘papist’ label

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  • The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961

    Ian Ker

    Gracewing, pp. 231

This book is so important and good it deserves a more crowd-pulling title. Besides, is ‘Revival’ the right word? True, after a silence of 300 years some authors began to write from the Catholic point of view, but this has gathered no popular momentum. Also the word ‘Catholic’ in a title is likely to put people off.

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