Editing John Henry Newman (section)

==Writer==
Some of Newman's short and earlier poems are described by [[Richard Holt Hutton|R. H. Hutton]] as "unequalled for grandeur of outline, purity of taste and radiance of total effect"; while his latest and longest, ''[[The Dream of Gerontius (poem)|The Dream of Gerontius]]'', attempts to represent the unseen world along the same lines as [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]. His prose style, especially in his Catholic days, is fresh and vigorous and is attractive to many who do not sympathise with his conclusions, from the apparent candour with which difficulties are admitted and grappled; while in his private correspondence, there is charm.{{sfn|Hutton|1911|p=519}} [[James Joyce]] had a lifelong admiration for Newman's writing style and in a letter to his patron [[Harriet Shaw Weaver]] remarked about Newman that "nobody has ever written English prose that can be compared with that of a tiresome footling little Anglican parson who afterwards became a prince of the only true church".<ref>{{cite book | last = Ellmann | first = Richard | author-link = Richard Ellmann | title = James Joyce | url = https://archive.org/details/jamesjoyce00rich | url-access = registration | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1982 | location = Oxford | page = [https://archive.org/details/jamesjoyce00rich/page/40 40] | isbn = 978-0-19-503381-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Joyce | first = James | author-link = James Joyce | editor-first= Richard |editor-last=Ellmann | title = Selected Letters of James Joyce | publisher = Faber & Faber | year = 1975 | location = London | page = 375 | isbn = 978-0-571-10734-6}}</ref>