在薇拉.凯瑟创作后期的巅峰之作《死神来迎接大主教》中,凯瑟把宗教和文化传统作为拯救人类异化的精神世界的工具,成功塑造了19世纪被派到美国新墨西哥州来传教的两位法国天主教神父的形象,描写了一种精神拓荒。凯瑟在热情地讴歌了两位神父对神圣事业的虔诚、追求与献身精神的同时,也为人类示范了一个在地球上“诗意栖居”的理想精神家园。 In her later epic poem, Death to Greet the Archbishop, Vera Cather used the religious and cultural traditions as a tool to rescue the alienated world of humanity and succeeded in shaping the 19th-century missionary mission to New Mexico in the United States The image of two French Catholic priests, describes a spiritual pioneer. Cather enthusiastically sang the two priest’s devotion to the sacred cause, the pursuit and dedication, but also for human demonstration of a planet of “poetic dwelling” ideal spiritual home.