A Model of Conservative Aesthetic Aspirations: The Poetry of J.C. Scharl
Scharl’s poetry reminds us of the vibrancy and relevance of our cultural tradition.
Scharl’s poetry reminds us of the vibrancy and relevance of our cultural tradition.
The American poet John Finlay died of a disease bred out of his own sins, but he prepared himself to see Truth face-to-face.
Poetry is in rough shape—but why?
Housman was a singular creature, a noble-minded nihilist of intense feeling.
Yeats’ ghostly philosophy became a central theme in much of his most significant poetry. Many of his key works cannot be properly understood without knowledge of it.
In Lawrence’s poetry, we catch a glimpse of how exactly the lordship of the machine is instituted: not with guns at the door, but on the altar of our worship.
Rarely, if ever, does Christopher Ricks raise a point without matching it with some apt snippet of verse. Or, rather, rarely does Ricks raise a point at all; instead he discovers, within the verses of poets, the point he himself would like to raise and consider, so that reading a Ricks essay can become a game of hide-and-seek as the critic dodges and peeks from between the curtains of carefully selected verse.
What Lionel Johnson awaited was a biographer who shared both his deep Faith and his soaring erudition in order to convey his work both in its true significance to its author, and on its own terms. With Robert Asch, Johnson has at last found him.
Protesting to assert our rights might give us a solution Achilles didn’t have when he contested Agamemnon’s authority. But we also lack something Achilles had—heroism—and so we find ourselves powerless.
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