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Literature
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (Translated by Aaron Poochigian): A Review
A new translation makes the founder of modern poetry into accessible and urgent reading.
Grammars of Grace: Dante’s Poetry of Sanctification
Phillip J. Donnelly shows how Dante invites readers to grow in holiness through their reading.
Tolkien: Naive Storyteller or Political Realist?
Did Tolkien have room for shades of gray within and without Middle Earth?
The Two Popes: A Surprisingly Timely Revival
Despite the script’s shortcomings, the Queen’s death threw this British revival into an interesting new light.
The Iliad, or the Poem of Honor
What is the driving force of Homer’s epic, and how should Christians think of it?
The Priest and the Ploughboy: Hilary Mantel, More, and Cromwell
How might confessional Protestants reflect on the late Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall” trilogy?
The Hero is the Bard: A Christian Perspective on Storytelling in the Odyssey
Unreliable narrators and metafiction aren’t just postmodern fads. They’re found at the foundation of Western literature.
The Upraised Eye: Coleridge’s Theology of Poetic Perception
Is imagination opposed to reason, or in fact essential to its proper use?
Gentle Discipline: Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Christian Elites
Spenser’s poem presents a distinctly Protestant vision for Christian elites in church and society.