@Catholic poetry from 1870 to 1914 sticks together with the current history and matches with the golden age of secular thinking. Major catholic poets of this time, confronted with rationalism and atheistic materialism, often appear at once apologists, opponents, polemists and committed militants. From the literary point of view, the problem to be faced is to know whether free transposition of moral and doctrinal rules is compatible with a catholic discipline which Paul Verlaine and Francis Jammes will avail themselves of after their coming back to faith. Similarly, catholic poets strove to express the universal themes of Creation, Evil, Sin, Redemption, divine Mercy, each according to his reception and experience. So, catholic poetry, far f...