Tag: poetry
Intelligent Design and the Value of Suffering
After she realized she had lost her battle with cancer, my wife Melissa wrote a letter to our children.
William Wordsworth’s Posthumous Challenge to Darwinian Nihilism
Paradoxically, Wordsworth’s theology may have formed a more effective counterforce to Darwin’s ideas than Biblical orthodoxy itself.
Wordsworth: Disciples at Home and Abroad
In 1848 Ralph Waldo Emerson is on record as having paid a return visit to the then aged Wordsworth.
Capturing Beauty, Painting Creation
Orcs were made from elves, not the other way around. And that is not my subject here. Beauty comes first.
“For He Purrs in Thankfulness”
One of my favorite poems (actually, a famous extract from the longer work Jubilate Agno) is Christopher Smart’s “To My Cat Jeoffrey.”