Footnotes: Adventures In Literary Exploration

  In his 1821 essay "A Defence of Poetry," Percy Shelley says that "poetry is connate with the origin of man." This is a...

 There is little doubt that contemporary literature and philosophy can be an alienating exercise in cynicism and apparent detachment. I thin...

 The history of protestant theology is complex and difficult for a non-specialist to effectively conceptualize. Many of the central conflict...

 My youngest daughter is in her final semester of high school and is taking grade 12 English. Despite my efforts, she doesn't enjoy read...

Though it is difficult to believe today, there was a time when people were ridiculed by the so-called intelligentsia if they were unable to ...

Grammar, as we often think of it, as a set of fairly strict definitions and rules that must be followed if we are to obtain legitimacy as ...

I have made some effort (though certainly not an exhaustive one) to read a fair degree of contemporary fiction. However, I don't really ...