This volume is a collection of essays that explains how literature, philosophy and theology have explored the role of wonder in our lives, particularly through poetry.
Francesca Bugliani Knox is Honorary Senior Research Associate at UCL and Research Fellow at Roehampton University, both in the UK. Her publications include translations into Italian as well as several books and articles on various aspects of English and Italian literature from the Renaissance to the present, including The Eye of the Eagle: John Donne and the Legacy of Ignatius Loyola (2011). She is the editor, with David Lonsdale, of Poetry and the Religious Imagination (2015) and, with John Took, of Poetry and Prayer (2016). She is also the editor of Ronald Knox. A Man for All Seasons (2017).
Jennifer Reek has a PhD from the Centre for Literature, Theology and the Arts, University of Glasgow, UK. Her work has appeared in journals such as Literature and Theology and Contemporary Women's Writing. She is the author of A Poetics of Church: Reading and Writing Sacred Spaces of Poetic Dwelling (2017). Currently, she teaches seminars in Great Books in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
