April is National Poetry Month! To celebrate, Wheaton Archives & Special Collections features Calvin Miller’s The Singer, a poetic allegory of the life of Christ, published by InterVarsity Press in 1975.

Along with original manuscripts of The Singer, SC 24: The Calvin Miller Papers includes extensive correspondence and other records that highlight Miller’s life and work as a pastor, artist, author, and professor.

Building on the rich Christian tradition of allegorical writing—from Medieval morality plays and Dante’s Divine Comedy to John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, Hannah Hurnard’s Hinds’ Feet on High Places, and C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia—The Singer offers a vivid retelling of the Gospel story as a longform narrative poem.

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