Taking Serious Poetry Seriously

Taking Serious Poetry Seriously

by | Oct 27, 2019

Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period by Anthony Domestico. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. Hardcover, 168 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by J. L. Wall Literary modernism resembles the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the twentieth century: the sick old man of...
Longing for Home

Longing for Home

by | Oct 20, 2019

Nostalgia: Going Home in a Homeless World by Anthony Esolen. Regnery, 2018.Hardcover, 256 pages, $29. Reviewed by Henry George The declaration of political homelessness, feeling bereft of the consolation that being rooted in support for a political party can give, is...
‘These Global Days’

‘These Global Days’

by | Oct 6, 2019

The Grail Mass and Other Works by David Jones. Ed. Thomas Goldpaugh and Jamie Callison. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Hardcover, xi + 279 pp., $176. Reviewed by Adam Schwartz David Jones (1895–1974) opens his modern epic, The Anathemata (1952), by quoting the Historia...
The Socialist You Should Be Reading

The Socialist You Should Be Reading

by | Sep 22, 2019

The Story of the Amulet by Edith Nesbit. Virago Modern Classics, 2017 (First published by T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Softcover, 301 pages, $12. Reviewed by Rebekah Curtis Edith Nesbit is the ideal children’s author. Her imagination is vast, her skill for verisimilitude...