David Roper’s book Psalm 23: The Song of a Passionate Heart. Roper’s poetic handling of Psalm 23, which was written during a spiritually dry period for Roper, was a godsend. I reacquainted myself with W. H. Auden, Shakespeare, and George MacDonald. But it was poetry by George Herbert and T. S. Eliot that called deep unto deep, and by the time Brian found me in the late afternoon, I felt myself to be a new man. God’s Word had done its work in me, calling me to come out from hiding behind the academic