Poetry
The Faith of E.E. Cummings ~ The Imaginative…
E.E. Cummings’ attitude to dogma and formal religion may have remained skeptical, but true to his…
Prayer That Pierces ~ The Imaginative Conservative
Now, in Passiontide, Christ becomes all the more visibly, our companion. We walk with him and see…
Jesus Weeps Over Jerusalem ~ The Imaginative…
This strange Holy Week has begun in tears: tears of frustration, tears of lament, and for so many…
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…
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.…
On the Feast of the Annunciation, A Quintet for Mary ~…
The feast of the Annunciation, usually falls on March 25th but that was in Holy Week this year, and…
“Resurrection” ~ The Imaginative…
Five years ago, when I was in Europe leading a pilgrimage tour to England with Joseph Pearce, I…
“Caritas” ~ The Imaginative Conservative
Love must not be, but take a body tooAir and Angels —John Donne The primal metaphor has been…
Easter Wings ~ The Imaginative Conservative
George Herbert’s “Easter Wings” is a witty, surprising, and smart poem, which teaches a profound…
