Bruce, Cicero

About the author: Dr. Bruce received his PhD from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He is currently Assistant Professor of English at McMurry University, Abilene, Texas..

W. H. Auden's Moral Imagination

1998 0-7734-2237-4
Places Auden among several twentieth-century Christian writers who, as Flannery O'Connor said they must, pushed as hard against the secular spirit of the age as it pushed against them. It challenges the common assumption that Auden, after all else failed, reluctantly converted to Christianity. Instead, it argues that Auden became a Christian after discovering that he already was one. "Bruce's study issues from exceptional grasp of and commitment to critical values that nourish civilization in its humane capacities and meaning. . . . One who reads Bruce's text will perceive a probing critical intelligence and integrity in work and word." - George A. Panichas