Welcome Book Club Members! Did you do your homework? You were supposed to get started by reading four of Eliot's early poems: Aunt Helen, The Boston Evening Transcript, Morning at the Windows and Preludes. [...]

One of the mysteries of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is the character of Tom Bombadil. Who is this odd hill leaping, silly song singing, farmer in the dell? Is this cavorting yellow booted [...]

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. G.K.Chesterton My friend Steven entertains and mystifies me because he is at once a devout Catholic and a devout doubter. He has [...]

At first glance the lives of T.S.Eliot and C.S.Lewis could not have been more different. Eliot was the midwestern son of New England blue bloods. To the Harvard manor born, he was in many [...]

The personal struggles of T.S.Eliot’s personal life continue to fascinate both his critics and admirers. Frustrated and wounded in love the women in Eliot’s life assume mythical proportions as if his life and literature [...]

Off I went to study at Oxford filled with the love of England and English literature only to find that the English had little love of their own most popular exports. I expected Oxford [...]