The Music of Chaos & Creation: Jean-Féry Rebel’s “Elements”
The Ancient Greeks held three notions about the nature of the universe that held sway for centuries over Western scientific and religious thought. The first was that…
The Ancient Greeks held three notions about the nature of the universe that held sway for centuries over Western scientific and religious thought. The first was that…
For readers of Tolkien, one of the most interesting and rewarding aspects of The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings is their apolitical approach to human…
John Milton published Paradise Lost in 1667. The epic poem consisted of ten books. What we know today as the complete, twelve book version of the epic,…
But let us ever praise him, and extol His bounty, following our delightful task To prune these growing Plants, and tend these Flow’rs, Which were it toilsome,…
“An intermediate nature . . . prevents the universe falling into two separate halves.” —Plato, Symposium (203b). Almost from the beginning of when human beings began to…
The title of this study, Milton's Socratic Rationalism, identifies a distinct mode of deliberative inquiry that is by design, as I will argue, an objective in the…
Milton’s Socratic Rationalism: The Conversations of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost. David Oliver Davies. Lanham, Lexington Books, 2017. In a time where many literary critics…