Literature

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.” ...

Many of us approach the holiday festivities with high expectations, rose-colored visions of the pleasures the festivities might ...

William Blake, in his poem "Auguries of Innocence," wrote: Some are born to sweet delight And some are ...

In June, I had the pleasure of visiting New York and, courtesy of The Society of Classical Poets, ...

For two years in the early 1990s, I taught adult basic education twice a week in a prison ...

On Feb. 14, 2018, a gunman opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High ...

"I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me." —Terence, Roman playwright Nothing human is ...

For most of us, November is one of those in-between months, in this case a pause between October’s ...

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L.P. Hartley, “The Go-Between” There it sat ...

Sometimes the impact of mass tragedy gets lost in the statistics. When death tolls are in the tens ...

Perhaps no myth—if myth it be—is more relevant today than the myth of the Great Flood that nearly ...

“John Donne—Anne Donne—Undone.” Fledgling poet John Donne (1572–1631) wrote these words in 1601 after his secret marriage to ...

Autumn, wrote poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant, is “the year’s last, loveliest smile,” and many of us ...

Given a choice, most of us are more inclined to read contemporary fiction than the classics. If we ...

In my last article for The Epoch Times, “What’s Wrong With the World,” I touched on the fact ...

“Hamlet” is arguably the most famous of William Shakespeare’s plays. It is the source of such famous lines ...

In 1910, G.K. Chesterton’s book “What’s Wrong With the World” was published, and the title did not include ...

Many of the settlers could never have owned land in Europe. This new advantage led to the tradition ...

Truth. Beauty. Timelessness. These three elements exist in any great work of art. Though most of us are ...

Ever since the Enlightenment of the 18th century, it has become increasingly difficult to talk of myths and ...

Both women were born within five days of each other in 1830. Both came from families prominent in ...

Though he died over 50 years ago, C.S. Lewis remains popular both as a writer of Christian apologetics ...

Anyone, at any age, can become a lover of literature and will be a better and happier person ...

This year marks the centennial of the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending World War I, that bloodbath which ...

“Arma virumque cano….” Those three words—“I sing of arms and the man”—open one of the great classics of ...

“Captain Blood.” For years, mention of the novel by Rafael Sabatini (1875–1950) about pirates in the Caribbean would ...

"Gulliver's Travels" show that it's possible for us to rise above the ideologies that divide us.