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We're having a special offer at Word and Song, in honor of our 3rd anniversary -- Come and join us! To Canaan's Land I'm on My Way, by Anthony Esolen open.substack.com/pub/anthonyeso…

"What if it isn't true?" When you sweep the field mainly by force and shouting, or you ride the crest of a social wave, you end up getting lazy, taking a lot of shaky and dubious things for granted. Then when somebody asks, "What if it isn't true?", you're going to be up a

Yesterday I was hunting down some detail about Robert Browning's life -- when he first went to Italy; and found out by the way that at age 14, the boy -- taught at home by a tutor, since he hated school life -- was fluent in Greek, Latin, French, and Italian. What's notable

I've read the document (in Italian) that Diane Montagna has posted, summing up the bishops' responses, solicited by Pope Francis, on questions regarding the implementation and the results of Summorum Pontificum. If anybody says it is a bogus document, all I can say is that that

Eve, immediately after having eaten of the fruit: ...And I perhaps am secret; Heaven is high, High and remote to see from thence distinct Each thing on Earth, and other care perhaps May have diverted from continual watch Our great Forbidder, safe with all his spies About him.

Rest in Peace, Dave Parker, "The Cobra," HOF outfielder for the Pirates. I've often said that our estimation of talent or brilliance is skewed by the habit of valuing some salient characteristic and forgetting about others, or by overvaluing brilliance in one respect while

Ancient Greek and its literature deserve to be taught at any big state university worthy the name, not because they are popular, but because they are sublime and of fundamental importance to the whole heritage of western civilization. We owe a debt to THEM. But classics

My DW and I have been watching episodes of the old Ben Casey show. Very well written, well acted, often gritty and not sentimental, and not everybody lives. At the beginning, the hand of Dr. Zorba (Sam Jaffe) traces five symbols on a blackboard, from top to bottom. As he does

Converte nos, Deus, salutaris noster, et averte iram tuam a nobis. The TURN we make by the heartsick longing of repentance is, literally, NOSTALGIC: meaning that we SUFFER for the RETURNING. "I shall arise," says the foolish young man, "and go to my father's house." When you

Authors I enjoy or admire, whose politics or non-religion or religious views I DON'T like very much: George Eliot, Percy Shelley, Ignazio Silone, Italo Calvino, Lillian Hellman, Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Max Frisch, William Blake, Niccolo Machiavelli, Moliere It is

One of my favorite and brightest students of all time was a graduate of Fenwick High School, in the last year when it was all male. We talked about it some. The priest who became the new principal was bent on two things, which were related: making the school co-ed, and getting

I've just read a synopsis of a study of a few dozen college freshmen, intending to major in English, and their attempts to read the first several paragraphs of Dickens' Bleak House. Bleak's the word for it. Something puzzled me about how the investigators framed their question.

In the 5th par. of Bleak House, Dickens begins 3 straight sentences with "On such an afternoon..." He EXPECTS his more literate readers to hear, with acid irony, the love-talk of Lorenzo and Jessica musing upon the moonlit night, in The Merchant of Venice: "On such a night..."

Suppose somebody says, "It is not possible for ordinary people to speak more than one language." We know damned well that that's nonsense. Ordinary people in many parts of the world speak two or three languages as a matter of course. Now suppose we say that there are languages

In the old Star Trek series, there are allusions to Genesis and to Renaissance literature; bits from Macbeth and Hamlet in the episode with the players: "Dagger of the Mind," "Is There in Truth No Beauty," Khan alluding to Milton ... The writers were in the conversation...

An old man there is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress, Nor is there singing school but studying Monuments of its own magnificence; And therefore I have sailed the seas and

Teaching the great heritage of English poetry to young people: wins, all round. Not a burden in time; more memorable; more artful; more clearly a conversation among the authors; close to music; more powerfully stretching the bounds of language. But teachers don't KNOW it.

I might surprise some when I say that the main aim of a teacher of English lit is to have students fall in love with it, to move them to wonder. If your main aim is that they acquire some skill, you're a utilitarian, and you should reconsider, or go into another line of work.

WHY must the lectionary for the Mass in the USA have such lame and sometimes flat awful translations? This is like aiming a shotgun at your foot and blowing it to smithereens. Today: "I HAVE OBSERVED Satan fall like lightning." HAVE OBSERVED? Like somebody doing an experiment?