Poems of Saint Paulinus of Nola (The), by Paulinus of Nola; Translated and Annotated by P.G. Walsh In general, the corpus of Paulinus' poetry has as its purpose to encourage Christians to persevere in a life of Christian commitment and to demonstrate to nominal Christians and to benevolent non-Christians the nature of that commitment. None of the extant poems was written after 409. 454pp Hardcover