What can a poet's prose tell you about his or her poetry? Quite a bit at times. Rowan Williams's interests in language and faith are evident in his poetry and he may have taken some of his preoccupations from Dostoevsky, whom he is able to read in the original Russian. Salley Vickers reviewed
Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction (2008) in the
Times (
September 19, 2008).