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Poet, demon, prophet, artist-all the labels apply, but none will adhere to William Blake (1757-1827). The wild-eyed precursor of romanticism disdained organized religion and mocked rigid science. He was his own martyr, church and congregation, his own teacher, pupil and school. Blake's art and poetry...
The Greeves letters are being edited by Walter Hooper, a U.S. Episcopal priest who lives in Oxford as literary executor of the Lewis estate. Hooper has an explanation for Lewis' growing popularity. He thinks the West is moving away from materialism and liberalism and needs "a coherent, universal faith...
Here we have old Homo habilis ensuring the survival of our species for 2 million years on the one hand, and on the other our "civilized" leaders, with twice the brain size, just waiting for a propitious day to blow us into eternal extinction with atom bombs.
If the '50s housewives are our mothers, the novel's Harvard group are our sisters. They partially escape the kitchen, but only partially. The rare husband willing to help wash dishes expects constant and eternal gratitude in return.
"[It] is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."