Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

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A Calvinist in Love

A Calvinist in Love

A poem

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Terry Freedman
Mar 03, 2022
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A Calvinist in Love
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One of my favourite poems is A Calvinist in Love, by Jack Clemo. I don’t pretend to understand it, or at least understand it very well, but I love the rhythm of it, and the feeling it evokes within me.

I first came across the poem in my 20s, in one of the books in the Penguin Modern Poets series.

Here’s the first stanza, with a link to the rest:

A Calvinis…

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