Author: Thomas Fleming
Victorian Poems–Urban Studies by Hopkins
In the so-called “Romantic Era”–I detest these misleading names devised and applied by petty minds–industrialization and urbanization awakened some poets to the Satanic threat of progress
From Under the Rubble: The Failure of Conservatism, Part I
Who could ever have believed, back in the dull old days of Eisenhower and Kennedy, that Conservative Republicans would be asked to choose between Erika Kirk and Candace Owens, two dizzy broads who can’t tell up from down much less right from left or right from wrong? Who could have predicted that the NFL would become a nest of traitors and degenerates, while conservatives would turn to an alternative program featuring Kid Rock? One could go on, but that would only antagonize the stultified fans of Greg Gutfeld, Tucker Carlson, Glen Beck, Alex Jones, Ben Shapiro, National Review and every...
Victorian Poems: Arthur Hugh Clough
For the next few months we shall be posting many more poems than usual, all by English poets in the Victorian Age. These are the poems that will certainly be discussed in Summer School.
The Shape of Sicilian Water
From Metternich to Montalbano–reflections on Italy and Sicily, slightly revised. The photo of the writer was taken at the Casa di Pirandello in front of the famous playwright’s statue/
Under the Shadow
This is a slightly revised version of an essay (published about 9 years ago) inspired by a re-reading of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. I had earlier exchanged letters with the author and published his brief introduction to a re-edition of his masterpiece.
Pius IX, Conclusion
When the revolution broke out again in 1848, Pius IX had been Pope for only two years. He had spent those two years well, reforming the government of the papal states especially the criminal justice system, rooting out corruption, imposing stricter discipline on the clergy.
Greek I.32: The Optative Mood
Ancient Greek has four moods/modes. Like Latin, Italian, French, and Modern Greek, it has indicative for statements and questions of fact, imperative for commands, subjunctive to express uncertainty or probability, and Optative
