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Poetry and the Classical Tradition / Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

April 18, 2024

An Apology for Poetry (Part 2)

The discourse on Thomistic angelology may serve to shed light on the nature of man and the consequent nature of poetry. I have considerably revised Part 2, which appears forthwith.

Poetry and the Classical Tradition

February 21, 2017

The Classical Tradition in Poetry, Chapter 2 [concluded]

Having published my “Apology for Poetry” and Chapter I of Gilbert Murray’s great work, The Classical Tradition in Poetry, I should now like to offer a further , and final, excerpt from Chapter II,...