The Power of Daffodils
Wordsworth and his contemporaries sparked an artistic revolution, the effects of which we’re still feeling.
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How to Read a Brook: Some Notes on Creation-Literacy
On Wordsworth, Augustine, and stopping reading to read well
We Murder To Dissect
Yesterday Rod Dreher reflected briefly on Lee Siegel’s lengthy July essay in the Wall Street Journal, “Who Ruined the Humanities?” in a post called “Against High School Literature” and it’s right up the CiRCE-reader alley. He offers this from Siegel: Books took me far from myself into experiences that had nothing to do with my …