Literature

The recent publication of The Fall of Arthur [http://www.amazon.com/The-Fall-Arthur-J-R-R-Tolkien/dp/0544115899/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371520111&sr=8-1&keywords=the+fall+of+arthur]

“Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve” –Alasdair MacIntyre Western Christianity received the atheists it deserved. Better yet, Britain has the atheists American Christianity earned: Those for whom Christianity

In the United States, few poets have endured the kind of censure that Ted Hughes has experienced since the death of Sylvia Plath. Hughes’ role in the weird melodrama which led to Plath’

“When I woke, the ground was moist about me, and my track to the grave was growing a quicksand.” — George MacDonald, Lilith Why does the poet suffer? Watch, look, see her longwinded thoughts

Although he was born frail and sickly, in 42 years  he left behind a bafflingly insightful and beautiful body of work. His writings appeared under the names of nearly a dozen pseudonyms. He