Christopher Dawson and Christendom

By |2022-03-12T11:38:53-06:00June 7th, 2013|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, Christendom, Christian Humanism, Christianity, Christopher Dawson, Featured|

Christopher Dawson unceasingly promoted an examination of culture as the most important basis of understanding a society, the family, and the human person. He believed the desire to give primacy to politics led to a loss of imagination in the human person and an impoverishment of higher reasoning in human societies. Although largely ignored in [...]

English Metrical Law

By |2019-10-24T13:35:42-05:00June 7th, 2013|Categories: Communio, Language, Literature, Poetry, Stratford Caldecott|Tags: |

Coventry Patmore Coventry Patmore (1823-1896) was a distinguished English Victorian poet and essayist, well known in his time, who fell into undeserved obscurity during the twentieth century. He published his first small volume of Poems under the influence of Alfred Lord Tennyson in 1844. After receiving a cruel review he tried to destroy the edition, [...]

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