Philomythos

Pinaxman: Victor Hanson Starts a Blog

Peter Lawler at No Left Turns points out a lecture Pope Benedict gave the other day, titled "The Best of Greek Thought Is “An Integra...

Mark Falcoff at AEI reviews (" Waugh's Postcolonial Studies ") a hard-to-find Waugh novel, Black Mischief (1932). It is a fab...

I want to dedicate some space and spend some time on a dissertation on the American western novels that, through a friend, I discovered and ...

John Miller at the Corner just discovered The New Yorker's publication of the original beginning of Solzhenitsyn’s The First Circle . H...

Phil has finally put together an up-to-date website dedicated to Stillman and his works. Check it out here . I'll take this as an opport...

This from Bill Kaufman's article over at The American Enterprise Online, " Stubborn Cowboys ": Elmer Kelton was voted "Gr...

From Robert Frost's “The Figure a Poem Makes”: Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ...

An article by Gary Shapiro in the NY Sun abut the honoring of Hilton Kramer, the founder of the New Criterion, a magazine that recalls a ti...

From Terry Teachout's "In one era and out the other" Overheard yesterday at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival: • Middle-aged wom...

Found this Discussion on voice and narration in poetry. It is part of a larger publication on poetics, prose, poetry, and drama. Very inter...

Back out of all this now too much for us, Back in a time made simple by the loss Of detail. . . . The rest . Be sure to check out recent add...

Came across John Zuern's CriticaLink through Denis Dutton's website . (Don't know who that is? You probably know the site he fou...

Helen Vendler on Yeats' "Among School Children"

I just missed this PBS program on Ford and Wayne by a few days, much to my regret. It looks like the telling of Ford and Wayne's relati...

After years of silence and elusiveness, Whit Stillman shows his hand .... He begins: I have a happy novelist friend who operates on the prin...

Caught a brief interview of Duvall claiming this American Movie Classics original (broadcast this June) is the final in a trilogy of wester...

Honors College Faculty Award Announced Honor Connections , 2005 in Review, pp. 22-27. M. Richard Zinman, University Distinguished Professor...

Chaucer lovers everywhere, he now has a blog for observations and advice. He has been busy: Lordynges, by Goddes grace ich yow biseche tha...

My interest in the study of the humanities was first awakened with a study of Petrarch and Dante on a summer exchange at Oxford years ago. S...