Mr. Carter Ehnis, M.A. Last year, I began rereading the works of C.S. Lewis. As I worked through Surprised by Joy, I came upon the oft-quoted passage where Lewis tells of his first encounter with Homeric Greek: We opened our Books at Iliad, Book I. Without a word of introduction Knock read aloud the first…
Dr. Ryan F. Smith Classical music can help students learn classical texts imaginatively. Music enlivens poetry in magical ways. When great classical composers and poets collaborate, the results can be exquisite. Such was the case when the eminent eighteenth-century composer G. F. Handel composed a now unfamiliar oratorio using the poetry of John Milton, entitled…
by Dr. Cole Jeffrey Guest contributor Milton’s lesser known political tracts reveal his philosophy of reading During the 1640s, England was divided by a bitter civil war. Two political factions, the Royalists and the Parliamentarians, fought for control of the government. The Royalists believed power should be controlled by the monarchy, while the Parliamentarians believed…
The power of Paradise Lost is not only in presenting Christian truth in a classical form, but also in reshaping that form according to Christian truth. It therefore represents a kind of conceptual prototype for Classical Christian Education as a whole, which seeks to assimilate the best of classical learning within its Christian commitment.