Book Review: The Song of Roland
“No day will pass that I feel no pain for you.”
– Charlemagne
(Laisse 207. 2901)
Tag: literature canon
Book Review: The Iliad by Homer
“The Greek epics express, with an incomparable depth and fulness, the eternal knowledge of truth and destiny which is the creation of the heroic age—the age that cannot be destroyed by any bourgeois ‘progress’.”
– Werner Jaeger
Book Review: The Aeneid by Virgil
“Be happy, friends; your fortune is achieved,
While one fate beckons us and then another.”
– Aeneid III. 655-656.
Book Review of Jerome: Select Letters
“Nothing is happier than the Christian, for to him is promised the kingdom of heaven: nothing is more toil-worn, for every day he goes in danger of his life.”
– St. Jerome