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Imagination as Love

Imagination as Love

Imagination is the power of image-creation. It is a living fire in the mind, for we are image-using creatures. Indeed, all our dealings and deliberations are the chasing – or...

Imagination as Love

Imagination is the power of image-creation. It is a living fire in the mind, for we are image-using creatures. Indeed, all our dealings and deliberations are the chasing – or...

Tolkien on the Dark Age

Tolkien on the Dark Age

Through the recent overwhelmed and overbooked days of summer, in little clusters of free minutes, I have been working through J.R.R. Tolkien's Letters and they are fascinating, worth recommending very...

Tolkien on the Dark Age

Through the recent overwhelmed and overbooked days of summer, in little clusters of free minutes, I have been working through J.R.R. Tolkien's Letters and they are fascinating, worth recommending very...

Chesterton on The Wrong Place

Chesterton on The Wrong Place

[As I'm traveling this week and not on the internet much, just a few thoughts from the Prince of Paradox...]

Chesterton on The Wrong Place

[As I'm traveling this week and not on the internet much, just a few thoughts from the Prince of Paradox...]

For The Time Being

For The Time Being

I have been working through W.H. Auden's Complete Poems for several months now. I had almost said I had been enjoying them for several months, but that would not be...

For The Time Being

I have been working through W.H. Auden's Complete Poems for several months now. I had almost said I had been enjoying them for several months, but that would not be...

On Dorian Gray, Pre-Raphaelitism & The Treason of All Clerks

On Dorian Gray, Pre-Raphaelitism & The Treason ...

Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation, 19th century Irish author Oscar Wilde was one of the best-known personalities of his time. A lavish and expensive character,...

On Dorian Gray, Pre-Raphaelitism & The Treason ...

Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation, 19th century Irish author Oscar Wilde was one of the best-known personalities of his time. A lavish and expensive character,...