In the latter part of August, 1566, bands of iconoclasts scoured the country, wrecking and pillaging churches, and in a few days they had plundered four hundred, among them the magnificent cathedral of Antwerp. These crimes opened the eyes of many who up to that time had been too lenient ...
who had emerged in the 1920s as the first poet of theHarlem Renaissanceand initially hadcommunistleanings, revised his earlier poems after embracing Catholicism in 1942. Everson shifted from a writer ofpagansensibilities to a layDominican, taking the name of Brother ...