Literature
A Conversation ~ The Imaginative Conservative
Each of us needs to be living courageously in goodness, truth and beauty, remembering at all times…
Tolkien’s Liturgical Imagination ~ The Imaginative…
Through Ben Reinhard’s book, readers can recognize more deeply the beautiful power of Tolkien’s…
Homage to Shakespeare ~ The Imaginative Conservative
The first spark of genuine engagement with great writers most often comes from a teacher, and the…
Pope Francis on Literature ~ The Imaginative…
“On the Role of Literature in Formation” is perhaps Pope Francis’s best document of his…
Is April the Cruelest Month? ~ The Imaginative…
meta April is the cruellest month…. The opening words of The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot are amongst…
An Elegy for Harold Bloom ~ The Imaginative…
For Harold Bloom, our intellectual strength, the strength of Western civilization, consists in the…
Catholic Literature in the Modern World ~ The…
No survey of contemporary literature can call itself complete today which ignores Catholic…
The Poet and the Universe of Thought ~ The Imaginative…
The poet relies upon on a shared understanding that gives his imagination the oxygen to sustain it.…
The Good Death of Kate Montclair ~ The Imaginative…
Kate Montclair is dying. She has arrived at late middle age loveless, childless, and having failed…
Resurrection in Narnia ~ The Imaginative Conservative
Let’s look at themes of resurrection in “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” one of the greatest…
