The Intellectuals and the Masses Revisited
With the advent of the modern industrial world, the twentieth century saw the emergence of a new generation of elite literati whose...
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By Robert Funderburk
- Apr 6
- 8 min
Profiles in Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson was not welcome in the world into which he was born, the village of Head Tide in the town of Alna, Maine....
By Mathew Ehret
- Mar 31
- 4 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 27
- 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 Adam Sedia
- Mar 24
- 29 min
The Final Disintegration and Renewal of Hope: Postmodernism's Ironic Self-destruction and Poetry’s Rebirth
Follow us on Substack for exclusive features As the thousand different isms of our age fall from their pedestals and countless illusions...
By David B. Gosselin
- Mar 22
- 9 min
Profiles in Poetry: Johann Wolfgang Goethe
"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 –...
By David B. Gosselin
- Mar 15
- 22 min
Hollywood, Predictive Programming and You: Are We Living in a Science Fiction Movie?
As part of our on-going civilizational short story project, enjoy this latest deep-dive into the magical world of movies and fiction....
By Karel Vereycken
- Feb 26
- 21 min
On the Track of the Sublime With Hieronymus Bosch
The following article is an edited version of a conference presentation at La Chapelle en Vercors, Spring 2002. “We are ravished by the...
By Carey Jobe
- Feb 12
- 12 min
The Prometheus Unbound of Aeschylus: Rebuilding a Lost Masterpiece
This is an extended preview from our winter 2024 issue of New Lyre Magazine. Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus is one of world literature’s...
By David B. Gosselin
- Feb 6
- 5 min
Review: Snow White and the Widow Queen by Jonathan Pageau
Snow White and the Widow Queen is the first of eight fairy tales in a new series by the master of symbolism and modern icon carver,...
By Karel Vereycken
- Jan 28
- 6 min
Remarks on Chinese Painting and Its Influence on the West
For more on the artistic dialogue between Eastern and Western masters, see "Climbing the Alps: The Vision of Ezra Pound." Between 700 to...
By David B. Gosselin
- Jan 24
- 14 min
Art, Metaphor and Epiphany
Originally published by UK Column The experience of great art is similar to the experience of a great scientific discovery. There is a...
By Adam Sedia
- Dec 24, 2023
- 4 min
Beyond the Lines: Frost's "Fire and Ice"
Anyone who has ever attended a commencement ceremony in the United States has certainly heard Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” often recited...
By Johnny Payne
- Dec 15, 2023
- 7 min
Charles Bukowski, Undisciplined Satirist
Yes, the man was prolific, having written some 5000 poems and scads of prose. Does that count as virtue, or logorrhea? I find myself...
By Adam Sedia
- Nov 25, 2023
- 10 min
A Journey Through Utopia: Early and Late Visions in Plato and Huxley
This latest essay is featured in our New Lyre Winter 2023 issue. All paid subscribers to New Lyre get access to not only all new content...
By David B. Gosselin
- Nov 23, 2023
- 5 min
Culture, Not Culture Wars: Reawakening the Creative Spirit of the West
There remain few topics in our current age which haven’t been absorbed or in some way consumed by a would-be “culture war.” One finds...
By John H. B. Martin
- Oct 22, 2023
- 26 min
De Gustibus (Et Pulchristudinis)
I remember once leafing through a volume of Allen Ginsberg's poems and coming across one poem with the word “butterfly” in it and...
By David B. Gosselin
- Oct 8, 2023
- 14 min
Edgar Allan Poe and the Mask of the 20th Century
BUT for the cruel aspersions upon the character and life of America’s poetic genius, EDGAR ALLAN POE, this volume would have remained...
By Peter Kalkavage
- Aug 18, 2023
- 40 min
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...
The Editors
- Jul 30, 2023
- 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...
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