In reading we encounter things not tuned to our own experience and worldview and, rather than do the humbling work of trying hear the music, we can instead pick it apart and feel entirely satisfied with our own cleverness.
Read MoreWriting for the ear and writing for the eye call for different priorities.
Read MoreWe all know too well the common “pendulum swinging” story of how we got from the Enlightenment to the Romantic period of literature. Most of us also know that it is a very misleading oversimplification…
Read MoreLike his poetic forebears, Milton does not portray Circe herself, but a Circean character.
Read MoreThose who claim Calvin takes too low a view of the Eucharist should spend some time reading the Institutes.
Read MoreI enter now Gethsemane
And I behold Thee weep.
I come to watch and pray with Thee:
Save me, O Lord, from sleep.