Very happy to introduce Coleridge, my new monthly column at Covenant:
Coleridge: Against False beauty, Raphael’s Inner Gentleness, and the First Poet-priestess
And, as a bonus, here’s everything that didn’t make it into the first installment:
The Imaginative Conservative has articles on Jonathan R. Eller’s biography of Ray Bradbury (reviewed by Bradley Birzer); Russell Kirk’s short story ‘The Cellar of Little Egypt’ (by Blaine McCormick); Charles Williams in letters and remembrances (by Cicero Bruce); the ‘tall tales’ of Chesterton, Tolkien, Lewis, and Rowling (by Joseph Pearce); and “Solzhenitsyn, Russell Kirk, & the Moral Imagination” (by Edward Ericson).
In The Imaginative Conservative, Julian Kwasniewski writes on Tolkien’s traditionalism, and C. R. Wiley on Tolkien’s character Tom Bombadil as “jovial father.”
At Voegelin View, Sarah Tillard writes on Shakespeare’s Reformation, Noelle Canty on Longfellow’s final years of genius, and Paul Krause on Dante in the digital inferno. And in three new podcasts from the Thomistic Institute, Justin Jackson speaks on “Christology in Literature”, Michael Mack on “The Imago Dei in Sidney and Shakespeare”, and Fr. Albert Trudel on “Dante, Aquinas, and the Virtues.”
Justin E. H. Smith, “Poetry has lost its violence: Censorious prudes miss the point of art” (UnHerd)
Alice Gribbin argues that art must acknowledge the Muses: “Advanced over decades and from various directions, campaigns to demystify art—to make art legible, unmysterious, or more accessible—have obscured its nature, perversely. Those most involved in arts and culture have led the campaigns” (Notes of an Aesthete). Franklin Einspruch responds, “Standing in the way of our connection to [the Muses] is not just centuries of secularization, as Gribbin notes, but millennia of Christianity and Judaism, which she doesn’t” (Dissident Muse).
Ted Gioia, “How Songs Created Western Rational Thinking: And Socrates sends me on a mad chase into the wild world of musical dreams” (The Honest Broker)
Michael De Sapio, “The Drama of Western Music” (The Imaginative Conservative)
“Is anyone at home in Northern Ireland? An ambiguous identity is productive for writers” (UnHerd)
Rimsky-Korsakov’s Magical “Scheherazade” – VoegelinView
Bijan Omrani, “On the Roman Road: A Journey with the Poet Ausonius” (Antigone)
Jaspreet Singh Boparai on Cézanne: “Stand and stare” (The Lamp).
Emily Wilson reviews the complete Epictetus (London Review of Books) and Daisy Dunn, a biography of Plato (Literary Review).
A Modern Dostoevsky–Almost | The Russell Kirk Center
Aidan Hart on The Annunciation: Discernment and Hopeful Expectation
Kafka’s Trials by Theodore Dalrymple | Articles | First Things
Capturing “Emma” ~ The Imaginative Conservative
The Lamplighters: The Life of Pablo
The Duty of the Craftsman: Beauty and Goodness in Cormac McCarthy | The Russell Kirk Center
Capturing “Emma” ~ The Imaginative Conservative
The Return of the King: Arthurian Legends and History – VoegelinView
THEOLOGY AND THE ARTS 