Calvert Alexander, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Calvert Alexander

Calvert Alexander, S.J., (1901–1977) was an American Jesuit priest. He led a distinguished career as editor of the magazine Jesuit Missions, from 1938 to 1963, and concluded his life with preaching and offering retreats. For his only authored work, The Catholic Literary Revival, he garnered significant accolades and appreciation from many leading literary figures and critics of his time.

Catholic Literature in the Modern World

By Calvert Alexander|2024-05-04T15:16:24-05:00April 13th, 2024|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Christianity, Cluny, Literature, Ronald Knox|

No survey of contemporary literature can call itself complete today which ignores Catholic literature. And this not only because of the promise it holds out for a complete renovation of the arts, but also because of its many distinguished writers and its not inconsiderable critical and creative work in all departments of literature. The Catholic [...]

The Catholic Literary Revival

By Calvert Alexander|2024-05-04T15:16:28-05:00March 16th, 2024|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Christianity, Cluny, Literature|

Catholic literature, when we discover it coming into being in the mid-nineteenth century, is a literature of protest against the course being followed by European society. Its writers were not very numerous, nor did the typical Victorian man see any particular significance in their opposition to Liberalism, the anti-intellectual Romantic aesthetic, scientific naturalism, and the [...]