In McEwan’s “Saturday,” the poem “Dover Beach” prevents a rape and possibly a murder.
Tag Archives: Matthew Arnold
Reading Poetry as Religious Experience
There is a spiritual dimension to reading literature that is worth exploring.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Georges Poulet, Lectio Divina, Leo Tolstoy, poetry and spirituality, Thor Magnus Tangeras Comments closed
Bibliotherapy Is Having a Moment
A new book indicates that bibliotherapy may be having a moment.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Buried Life", "Episode", bibliotherapy, D. H. Lawrence, Inger Hagerup, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Mary O'Hara, My Friend Flicka Comments closed
Teachers as Literature’s Missionaries
If literature teaches foundational social values, then teachers can be seen as missionaries.
2020: Wandering between Two Worlds
A witty riff on a T. S. Eliot line and an illusion to a Matthew Arnold poem neatly capture the 2020 election results.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Hollow Men", "Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse", Donald Trump, Election 2020, Joe Biden, T. S. Eliot Comments closed
Do Endings Reveal Meaning of Life?
Monday My wife Julia alerted me to an intriguing although somewhat frustrating article in Atlantic about the end of time. Drawing on Frank Kermode’s 1967 The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, Megan Garber wrestles with an issue recently raised by The Washington Post: how do we live with constant reminders […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Dover Beach", "Second Coming", Alexander Pope, endings, Frank Kermode, King Lear, modernism, post-apocalyptic fiction, Samuel Beckett, Sense of an Ending, William Butler Yeats, William Shakespeare, world weary ennui Comments closed
The Declining English Major
An English prof, sensing obsolescence, turns to “In Memoriam” (also Fowles, Wordsworth & Arnold).
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Dover Beach", Alan Bennett, Alfred Lord Tennyson, English major, French Lieutenant's Woman, History Boys, Humanities, In Memoriam, Intimations of Immortality, John Fowles, William Wordsworth Comments closed
