Alas, not me

https://www.worldhistory.org/image/5836/portrait-of-virgil/ Several years back I published a post on echoes of Vergil in Shakespeare ...

I have been spending a fair bit of time with Boethius and Saint Augustine lately. No, really that's okay. My next book will begin with q...

Yesterday, a friend sent me something he was working on about The Lord of the Rings , and what he had to say about Hobbits and the Shire in ...

In Tolkien's youth it was nothing unusual for Latin and Greek students to be told to translate a piece of English verse into verse in La...

Introduction: ‘the burden of a large story’   ‘They wanted a sequel. But I wanted heroic legends and high romance. The result was Th...

Every now and then Lewis' Irish gets out, usually in the form of (for me) vexing remarks about 'Papists', but this story was...

For some time the Letters of C. S. Lewis have been the reading on my nightstand. If I don't read a page or two before I fall asleep, ...

Julian Grenfell Julian Grenfell  was a poet and soldier of the Great War, who embraced the idea of battle and the war even as he als...

The other day I was listening to one of Malcolm Guite's marvelous talks -- I say marvelous, as if, absurdly, there were talks of ...

Near the beginning of his chapter on 'The Heavens' in The Discarded Image , C. S. Lewis quotes from Chaucer to illustrate the...

Trying to find my room on day one of Mythmoot The theme of the most recent Mythmoot --  held just this past weekend in the Khaza...

In The Discarded Image , his otherwise marvelous introduction to the medieval model of the world, C. S. Lewis tells us: Mercury produc...