Irving Babbitt was in no way a dogmatic, ossified traditionalist. He was a creative traditionalist: He encouraged renewed expressions of imaginative vision, and he was open to the possibility of a deepening and an expansion of humane knowledge...
The Critical Legacy of Irving...
There is a divine order of being of which we must be a part. To reject this order and our part therein is to choose madness and make any decent life impossible. As a literary critic, George Panichas shed great light on the relationship between this recognition...
Irving Babbitt wrestled with those fundamental life questions that relate to the fate of man in the modern world. What he chose to say about this world of increasing material organization continues to make Babbitt’s work and thought disturbing and unpalatable...
Idolatry is a dimension of the value that is now placed on sports in America, and is expressed in unbridled adoration of physical feats, and in bowing down to the things of the world...
"A technologically supported...
Excellence, which can be defined as the state of excelling and of surpassing merit, is now increasingly one of the lost words of the English language. And increasingly the special qualities that this word denotes are banned in...
Its contemplation of evil makes "Mrs. Dalloway" a modern classic that speaks in a universal language and has universal meaning...
The British writer, C.E. Montague (1867–1929) poignantly describes this debasing process in an acclaimed book that appeared...
"Mrs. Dalloway" has as one of its primary reference points the life and fate of a psychologically maimed soldier who has returned from the Western Front...
The British writer, C.E. Montague (1867–1929) poignantly describes this debasing process...
To read "Mrs. Dalloway" is to re-experience the full violence of war inflicted on body and soul and mind and to comprehend the ravages of cruel history...
The British writer, C.E. Montague (1867–1929) poignantly describes this debasing...
Man, it is often said, cannot jump over his own shadow. The poet—and by "poet" I mean a writer of imaginative works in verse or prose—leaps over the universe...
Sicut erat in principio
et nunc et semper
et in saecula saeculorum.
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Man, it is often said, cannot jump over his own shadow. The poet—and by "poet" I mean a writer of imaginative works in verse or prose—leaps over the universe...
Sicut erat in principio
et nunc et semper
et in saecula saeculorum.
I
Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered by Russell Kirk (ISI Books, 2009, 2nd edition).
Russell Kirk's book on Edmund Burke, first published in 1967, now revised and handsomely re-issued, testifies not only
Today’s offering in our Timeless Essay series affords our readers the opportunity to explore the true meaning of conservatism and how we should restore it. —W. Winston Elliott III, Publisher
“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll get knocked down by anything.”...
Can a man of moral sensitivity function in a corrupt and derelict world? This is a major question that Joseph Conrad probes in Victory (1915) and that his main character, Axel Heyst, presumably a Swedish baron,...
In the ancient world the perimeters of tragic vision and experience were clearly established and recognized. One could be quite clear as to the meaning of tragedy and the manifestations of tragic experience and tragic...
