Thomas Hubert, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Thomas Hubert

Thomas H. Hubert is a retired scholar, poet, and businessman. He received a PhD in English from the University of Georgia in 1975 with a concentration in American literature; his dissertation was on Allen Tate’s poetry. During the academic phase of his career, Dr. Hubert taught at universities in the South and Midwest.

The Richard Weaver-Abraham Lincoln Debate

By Thomas Hubert|2020-06-01T19:06:06-05:00June 1st, 2020|Categories: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Conservatism, Literature, Reason, Richard Weaver, South|

For some time I had puzzled over a discrepancy or inconsistency between two of Richard Weaver’s essays which treat of Lincoln to one degree or another. In his “Abraham Lincoln and the Argument from Definition” (1953), Weaver praises Lincoln as a “conservative” by virtue of his employment of the argument from definition on such [...]

Allen Tate’s Confederate Ode: Who Are the Living and the Dead?

By Thomas Hubert|2019-11-01T22:02:38-05:00November 1st, 2019|Categories: Civil War, History, Literature, Poetry, South, War|

It may be justly said that the past, if it is to live, must live in us; the corollary is that if it does not, then we perforce participate, to one degree or another, in a kind of living death. This is the heart of Allen Tate’s “Ode to the Confederate Dead.” Then Lytle [...]