Plato’s “Timaeus” and the Will to Order
And whoever thinks another a greater friend than his own fatherland, I say that man is nowhere. –Sophocles, Antigonê 182-3 The Timaeus is...
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The Editors
- Jul 30
- 6 min
Escaping Huxley's Island: Psychedelics, Scientific Paganism and the Changing Images of Man
With the advent of the Golden Renaissance, a revolutionary new image of man emerged. It was based on the traditional Judeo-Christian...
By John H. B. Martin
- Jul 27
- 8 min
Science & Art
People often contrast Science and Religion, but in fact a more telling comparison would be between Science and Art. Though the two...
By Adam Sedia
- Jul 18
- 4 min
Beyond the Lines: Robert Frost's "Acquainted with the Night"
Robert Frost’s talent radiates best from his shorter poems. His poetic voice, naturally laconic, finds its most expressive mode in his...
Translation
- Jul 14
- 26 min
Vie de Beethoven II
Vie de Beethoven” by Romain Rolland was published for the first time in January 1903. Translation was done by Diana Stockwell in January...
By David B. Gosselin
- Jul 7
- 9 min
Celebrating the Promethean Spirit of Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822)
July 8th marks the date of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s unfortunate drowning in the Bay of Lerici, Italy. Despite the considerable sea of time...
The Editors
- Jun 20
- 3 min
Renaissance Roundtable: Is A Renaissance Possible Today?
In our age of accelerated technological progress, rapid mobility, and lightspeed communication, our world may appear more complex than...
By Ryan P. Tunison
- May 27
- 7 min
A Poet's Prayer: Deeper Truths Behind Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life,” prefaced with the phrase “What the heart of the young man said to the psalmist” treads...
By Adam Sedia
- Apr 29
- 16 min
Francisco de Goya: Master Critic of the Human Condition
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is one of Spain’s best known painters. Heir to the tradition of El Greco, Velázquez, Murillo,...
By David B. Gosselin
- Apr 20
- 12 min
C.S. Lewis’ “Weight of Glory”: Longing in the Poets, Composers & Theologians
C.S. Lewis famously discussed the role of the eternal “longing” found in each mortal human being. Lewis referred to this longing using a...
By Mathew Ehret
- Apr 9
- 6 min
Leaping from Despair into Hope: The Lesson of Rembrandt’s Resurrection for Today’s Troubled World
Today, the world finds itself moving through a turbulent transformation between two systems. Collapsing at a faster rate every day are...
By Adam Sedia
- Mar 28
- 13 min
Celebrating the Life of Robert Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963)
“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” —Robert Frost To many in America, Robert Frost is the grandfatherly originator of “The...
By Cynthia Chung
- Mar 24
- 53 min
How To Conquer Tyranny and Avoid Tragedy: A Lesson on Defeating Systems of Empire
This is a transcription of a lecture, which can be found here, given as part of the RTF series “Art, Science and Civilization: The...
By John Martin
- Mar 19
- 6 min
What Is Art?
This isn't an essay. But it isn't a manifesto either. A manifesto is something one writes before one has started. An essay is something...
By Martin McCarthy
- Mar 14
- 6 min
Bringing Sappho to Life: The Innovative Translations of Michael R. Burch
Not much is known about the Greek poet Sappho, except that she was born around 630 B.C. on the island of Lesbos in the port city of...
By Adam Sedia
- Mar 5
- 3 min
Behind the Lines: Nothing Gold Can Stay
Even though Robert Frost was born in California, he is known as a quintessentially New England Poet. His family roots were there and he...
By Louis Markos
- Feb 20
- 5 min
Dante on Eden
Author’s Introduction: Imagine if Homer, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, and the other great poets of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages...
By Mathew Ehret
- Feb 9
- 9 min
Norman Rockwell & the Rediscovery of America’s Moral Compass
A great poet once said that you can judge a nation by how it honors (or fails to honor) its artists. In many ways, the soul of a nation...
By Adam Sedia
- Feb 1
- 27 min
Yeats and the Occult
Modernism produces obscure poetry because it denies the existence of absolute truth. Without a fundamental truth to reveal, poetry is...
By Gerald Therrien
- Jan 23
- 14 min
Beyond the Lines: “Mending Wall”—Robert Frost and the Good Neighbor Poetry
“Mending Wall” is a nice poem that tells a fun little story, about someone, his neighbor and a wall. Frost takes the old saying, which...
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