Book Review: The Odyssey by Homer
“So it is that nothing is more sweet in the end than country and parents ever, even when one lives in a fertile place, when it is in alien country, far from his parents.”
Odyssey IX. 33-36
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Book Review: Beowulf
“Choose, dear Beowulf, the better part,
eternal rewards. Do not give way to pride.”
– Beowulf. 1759-1760.
Book Review: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
“O highest Wisdom, how much art you show
in Heaven, on earth, and in the evil world!
How justly does your power apportion all!”
– Inferno XIX. 10-12.
Book Review: Piers Plowman by William Langland
Why Langland’s allegorical poem about the spiritual life ought to inspire us today.
Book Review: Phèdre by Jean Racine
How this striking classic of the French stage has much to tell us about the Classical world and our world.
Book Review: Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
“The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God.”
– Psalms 52:1
Book Review: The Lusíads by Luís Vaz de Camões
“There will be no lack of Christian daring / In this little house of Portugal.”
– The Lusíads VII. 14.
Book Review: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
“Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?”
– Job 40:20
Book Review: Lord of the World by Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson
“And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God: and this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and he is now already in the world.”
– 1 John 4:3
Book Review: Idylls of the King by Lord Alfred Tennyson
“If I lose myself, I save myself!”
– Galahad
(HG 178)