His originality is baffling, and his form is strange. His vers libre may be linked, perhaps, with that rhythm of Rimbaud, Maurice de Guerin, Chateaubriand, and with the beautiful tradition of French poetical prose; but based as it is on a personal theory of respiratory rhythm, stamped with the seal of an originality that is forceful, conscious, meditated, it is his alone, it is Claudelian verse. Furthermore, Claudel is a religious genius. The faith he holds is not a comfortable, reassuring, accommodating and modern one; but a harsh and inflexible faith which sometimes seems to delight in all that shocks reason and terrifies sensibility in dogma and discipline.
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