James Matthew Wilson

James Matthew Wilson is Cullen Foundation Chair in English literature and the founding director of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Saint Thomas, Houston. An award-winning scholar of philosophical theology and literature, Wilson has written 12 books, most recently Praying the Nicene Creed: I Believe in One God.

Posts by James Matthew Wilson

October 22, 2024

The Life-Giving Suffering of Things

Alfred Lord Tennyson’s dramatic monologue “Ulysses” has for nearly two centuries served as the great cri de coeur of all young men whose lives of mediocrity and utility leave them restless and unsatisfied. Continue Reading...