‘At last he rose, and twitch’d his mantle blue: To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.’ So wrote Milton of his shepherd-poet, his ‘uncouth swain’, at the end of Lycidas. Whether or not I meet Milton’s definition of an ‘uncouth…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Our series on The Art of Advent: A Painting a Day by Jane Williams continues with Jake Morley reflecting on the Great Antiphon O Key of David. For more information on this series, see our Series Launch.] O Key of…
In one of his many essays on Milton, Northrop Frye defines the epic poem as a ‘special kind’ of narrative poem that does more than simply recount a heroic narrative; the epic, he argues, additionally offers an ‘encyclopedic quality, .…
Editor’s note: We are very pleased to present the second part of an interview with distinguished artist Penny Warden. In the first part, she discussed her personal journey to become a practicing artist and the role of religious art in…
Editor’s note: We are very pleased to present the first part of an interview with distinguished artist Penny Warden. In this first part, she discusses her own journey to become a practicing artist and the role of religious art in…
Editor’s Note: Over the last several weeks, we have enjoyed several insightful interactions with Advent and Christmas poetry taken from Malcom Guite’s anthology Waiting on the Word. As our poetry symposium concludes, we offer thoughts inspired by W. H. Auden’s…