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Literature

  • Some Lessons From ‘The Columbian Orator’
    Some Lessons From ‘The Columbian Orator’
    Though a history major in college and a disciple of Clio (the muse of history) ever since, I was unfamiliar with Caleb Bingham and his once famous compendium, “The Columbian Orator.” ...
    December 17, 2019BY Jeff Minick
  • Lessons and Carols: Sir Gawain, a Green Knight, and Us
    Lessons and Carols: Sir Gawain, a Green Knight, and Us
    Many of us approach the holiday festivities with high expectations, rose-colored visions of the pleasures the festivities might ...
    December 16, 2019BY Jeff Minick
  • Cain and Abel: A Parable for Our Times
    Cain and Abel: A Parable for Our Times
    William Blake, in his poem "Auguries of Innocence," wrote: Some are born to sweet delight And some are ...
    December 5, 2019BY James Sale
  • The Making of a Poem: Courage, Strength, and Kung Fu
    The Making of a Poem: Courage, Strength, and Kung Fu
    In June, I had the pleasure of visiting New York and, courtesy of The Society of Classical Poets, ...
    November 21, 2019BY James Sale
  • Stone Walls, Iron Bars, Paper and Pens: A Look at Writers and Prisons
    Stone Walls, Iron Bars, Paper and Pens: A Look at Writers and Prisons
    For two years in the early 1990s, I taught adult basic education twice a week in a prison ...
    November 21, 2019BY Jeff Minick
  • Book Review:  ‘Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created the Parkland Shooter and Endanger America’s Students’
    Book Review:  ‘Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created the Parkland Shooter and Endanger America’s Students’
    On Feb. 14, 2018, a gunman opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High ...
    November 21, 2019BY Linda Wiegenfeld
  • Are We Making Heroes of Our Villains?
    Are We Making Heroes of Our Villains?
    "I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me." —Terence, Roman playwright Nothing human is ...
    November 19, 2019BY Jeff Minick
  • The Pity of War: The Remarkable Poets of World War I
    The Pity of War: The Remarkable Poets of World War I
    For most of us, November is one of those in-between months, in this case a pause between October’s ...
    November 6, 2019BY Jeff Minick
  • My Literary Dig: An Exploration of ‘The Best Loved Poems of the American People’
    My Literary Dig: An Exploration of ‘The Best Loved Poems of the American People’
    The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L.P. Hartley, “The Go-Between” There it sat ...
    November 4, 2019BY Jeff Minick
  • Dancing Through the Darkness of Mao’s China
    Dancing Through the Darkness of Mao’s China
    Sometimes the impact of mass tragedy gets lost in the statistics. When death tolls are in the tens ...
    October 28, 2019BY Ryan Moffatt
  • The Great Flood and What It Tells Us
    The Great Flood and What It Tells Us
    Perhaps no myth—if myth it be—is more relevant today than the myth of the Great Flood that nearly ...
    October 23, 2019BY James Sale
  • Well Done, John Donne
    Well Done, John Donne
    “John Donne—Anne Donne—Undone.” Fledgling poet John Donne (1572–1631) wrote these words in 1601 after his secret marriage to ...
    October 23, 2019BY Jeff Minick
  • Some Poets Look at Autumn
    Some Poets Look at Autumn
    Autumn, wrote poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant, is “the year’s last, loveliest smile,” and many of us ...
    October 17, 2019BY Jeff Minick
  • Red Flags: Dostoevsky’s Message for Us
    Red Flags: Dostoevsky’s Message for Us
    Given a choice, most of us are more inclined to read contemporary fiction than the classics. If we ...
    October 17, 2019BY Jeff Minick
  • The Old Stories Are Best: Adam and Eve
    The Old Stories Are Best: Adam and Eve
    In my last article for The Epoch Times, “What’s Wrong With the World,” I touched on the fact ...
    October 10, 2019BY James Sale
  • An Uncanny Clue to the Authorship of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’
    An Uncanny Clue to the Authorship of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’
    “Hamlet” is arguably the most famous of William Shakespeare’s plays. It is the source of such famous lines ...
    October 8, 2019BY Evan Mantyk
  • What’s Wrong With the World?
    What’s Wrong With the World?
    In 1910, G.K. Chesterton’s book “What’s Wrong With the World” was published, and the title did not include ...
    October 3, 2019BY James Sale
  • Book Review: ‘America’s Forgotten Colonial History’
    Book Review: ‘America’s Forgotten Colonial History’
    Many of the settlers could never have owned land in Europe. This new advantage led to the tradition ...
    October 2, 2019BY Linda Wiegenfeld
  • And Still She Speaks to Us: Truth and Beauty in ‘Antigone’
    And Still She Speaks to Us: Truth and Beauty in ‘Antigone’
    Truth. Beauty. Timelessness. These three elements exist in any great work of art. Though most of us are ...
    September 30, 2019BY Jeff Minick
  • The Tower of Babel We Build
    The Tower of Babel We Build
    Ever since the Enlightenment of the 18th century, it has become increasingly difficult to talk of myths and ...
    September 18, 2019BY James Sale
  • My Heart Is Like a Singing Bird: Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti
    My Heart Is Like a Singing Bird: Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti
    Both women were born within five days of each other in 1830. Both came from families prominent in ...
    September 17, 2019BY Jeff Minick
  • The Best of CS Lewis’s Fiction: ‘Till We Have Faces’
    The Best of CS Lewis’s Fiction: ‘Till We Have Faces’
    Though he died over 50 years ago, C.S. Lewis remains popular both as a writer of Christian apologetics ...
    September 17, 2019BY Jeff Minick
  • Confessions of a Late-Blooming Lover of Great Literature
    Confessions of a Late-Blooming Lover of Great Literature
    Anyone, at any age, can become a lover of literature and will be a better and happier person ...
    September 12, 2019BY Susannah Pearce
  • War, Disillusionment, Literature, and the Divine
    War, Disillusionment, Literature, and the Divine
    This year marks the centennial of the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending World War I, that bloodbath which ...
    September 10, 2019BY Jeff Minick
  • ‘Pietas,’ ‘Virtus,’ ‘Familia’: Some Lessons From Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’
    ‘Pietas,’ ‘Virtus,’ ‘Familia’: Some Lessons From Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’
    “Arma virumque cano….” Those three words—“I sing of arms and the man”—open one of the great classics of ...
    August 27, 2019BY Jeff Minick
  • Swashbuckler: Lessons in Morality From Peter Blood, the Pirate
    Swashbuckler: Lessons in Morality From Peter Blood, the Pirate
    “Captain Blood.” For years, mention of the novel by Rafael Sabatini (1875–1950) about pirates in the Caribbean would ...
    August 26, 2019BY Jeff Minick
  • Gulliver’s Benevolent Breakthrough
    Gulliver’s Benevolent Breakthrough
    "Gulliver's Travels" show that it's possible for us to rise above the ideologies that divide us.
    August 25, 2019BY Eric Bess
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