Stephen H. Conlin

About Stephen H. Conlin

Steve Conlin studied English and Philosophy at the University of Southampton, where his Master's thesis was on Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method. Mr. Conlin has worked in diverse areas, including the construction industry, sales, public transport, and as a schoolteacher. He lives in Bournemouth in Southern England.

Grace in the Garden: The Fall of Man & the British Pastoral Tradition

By Stephen H. Conlin|2019-08-04T22:08:19-05:00August 4th, 2019|Categories: Imagination, Literature, Moral Imagination, Poetry, Timeless Essays, Truth|

The transcendent ‘overcoming’ or reconciliation of the Fall of Man—that symbol of the cause of the disorder that we would wish re-ordered, of the return to the garden—is what great poetry graciously asks of us. The pastoral tradition will probably persist as an expression of the moral imagination in which artists in all spheres [...]

Grace in the Garden: The Fall of Man & the British Pastoral Tradition

By Stephen H. Conlin|2019-06-12T16:09:14-05:00November 17th, 2018|Categories: Books, Featured, John Milton, Literature, Poetry, Russell Kirk, T.S. Eliot|

The transcendent ‘overcoming’ or reconciliation of the Fall of Man—that symbol of the cause of the disorder that we would wish re-ordered, of the return to the garden—is what great poetry graciously asks of us. “An intermediate nature... prevents the universe falling into two separate halves.” —Plato, Symposium (203b). Almost from the beginning of when human [...]