In almost complete agreement. We both esteem the great writers of our Western tradition, while being open to other civilizations and cultures. I'm more resistant to Modernism than you are, and even more enamored with the best of our Judeo-Christian culture, from Dante and the Renaissance to the literature of Solzhenitsyn and Tolkien. (Maybe Dickens and Austen and Eliot were all Christian writers; hard to say for sure.) Certainly all five of these were traditionalists, in my view, and great traditionalists. We've never discussed Shakespeare, but should sometime. So you and I have a very similar philosophy and approach, although I may be even more traditionalist than you. I win.
In almost complete agreement. We both esteem the great writers of our Western tradition, while being open to other civilizations and cultures. I'm more resistant to Modernism than you are, and even more enamored with the best of our Judeo-Christian culture, from Dante and the Renaissance to the literature of Solzhenitsyn and Tolkien. (Maybe Dickens and Austen and Eliot were all Christian writers; hard to say for sure.) Certainly all five of these were traditionalists, in my view, and great traditionalists. We've never discussed Shakespeare, but should sometime. So you and I have a very similar philosophy and approach, although I may be even more traditionalist than you. I win.
I had to.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRdfX7ut8gw