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Tolkien, Heaney, and Beowulf, Part Two
::Cue dramatic radio announcer voice:: When two unparalleled authors face off in an epic translation battle, only one can take the throne. Who will wear the laurels, and who will be the loser? Welcome to…Heaney vs Tolkien: The Beowulf Battle. …All right, maybe translations…
Tolkien, Heaney, and Beowulf
Youth is wasted on the young, and college classes are wasted on college students. When I was a junior in college, I took a History of Modern English class that seemed, at the time, drier than dust and older than dirt. To this day,…
Skyscrapers, Social Media, and Science: C.S. Lewis on “Progress”
Proof number 793 that I’m an old soul: I resonate with a poem that laments the evils of progress…from 100 years ago. On my latest reading of C.S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress, I came across this powerhouse of a poem in the last chapter….
An Allegorical Conversion Story: C.S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress
This week I finished re-reading C.S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress, and guys—it was thrilling. Seems like an odd description for a spiritual allegory from almost a century ago, but it’s true. I’d read it before, maybe during high school, so I found plenty of…
The Mythmakers by John Hendrix
Today’s book features my two favorite Inklings: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. In that sense, it’s on par with many other books I’ve read, enjoyed, and recommended. However, there’s a little something that sets this one apart: it’s a graphic novel. Not A Comic…
What I Learned from Lewis’s Letters
There are so many collections of Lewis’s letters that it’s hard to know where to begin reading. On my bookshelf I have his Letters to Children; Letters to an American Lady; Letters to Malcom, Chiefly on Prayer; Collected Letters, and—probably the longest one I…
Who Were the Inklings?
Happy 8th birthday to Past Watchful Dragons! It was February 28, 2018, when I first posted in this space about my love of reading and writing. It’s been a long and wonderful journey, and there’s plenty more to come. For those of you who…
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