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Joe Carlson

@joelikesdante

Poet | Author | Translator | PhD Literature (University of Dallas)

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📚 The Thanksgiving Sale is live! Ladies, this is the time to buy your man books. Gentlemen, this is the time to build a bookcase. Parents, this is the time to start your children's library. All Old Western Culture and Roman Roads Classics on sale:

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Read Caesar. Read Chaucer. Read Dante. Your imagination expands, your categories deepen, and you become the kind of person who can actually solve problems. Modern education doesn’t want that. It wants conformity. It wants an omelet—and you’re the egg. Watch the full

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How are you pursuing excellent craftsmanship in your labors? This is a question we all need to have or develop a positive answer to. I was privileged to be joined by one of my close friends, Jason Farley, for one of the most insightful discussions I have hosted. Watch our

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The Sacred River: A Coleridge Reader on the Imagination This collection presents the reader with a substantial set of texts on the nature and function of the human imagination written by one of the most insightful poets and philosophers of the early nineteenth century. Gathering

The Sacred River: A Coleridge Reader on the Imagination

This collection presents the reader with a substantial set of texts on the nature and function of the human imagination written by one of the most insightful poets and philosophers of the early nineteenth century. Gathering
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If your school or homeschool uses Penguin Classics, read this article. Excerpt: Trojan Penguins The importance of this was borne in on me recently after casually picking up my Penguin edition of Paradise Lost. As a teacher in the Classical Christian world, I value books. We all

If your school or homeschool uses Penguin Classics, read this article.

Excerpt:
Trojan Penguins
The importance of this was borne in on me recently after casually picking up my Penguin edition of Paradise Lost. As a teacher in the Classical Christian world, I value books. We all
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In celebration of Christ the King, we wish you a Merry Christmas as you enjoy this rich rendition of 'Lo, God, Our God' by the NSA Concert Choir.

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For tonight's Spell in the Library I tell you about the documentary that's being made about the writing of my epic Merlin's Isle and there with you the trailer! youtu.be/WFhri68y4D0

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"Dante was the first religious reformer, and Luther surpassed him rather in the rudeness and acrimony than in the boldness of his censures of papal usurpation. Dante was the first awakener of entranced Europe; he created a language, in itself music and persuasion, out of a chaos

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If you're in Moscow, Idaho: Join us for a reading of On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, by John Milton, at Roman Roads Press! Discussion and Refreshments to follow. RSVP required: romanroadspress.com/event/milton-c…

If you're in Moscow, Idaho: 

Join us for a reading of On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, by John Milton, at <a href="/RomanRoadsPress/">Roman Roads Press</a>!

Discussion and Refreshments to follow.
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The Sacred River: A Coleridge Reader on the Imagination is now available on Amazon. Though buying at Roman Roads (romanroadspress.com/store/sacred-r…) is always better, there's something about amazon that makes it feel official. a.co/d/fnzcVJs

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Christ in Aeneid 5? Book 5 opens with another storm at sea, though this time natural, as the sight of Carthage disappears behind the northward sailing Trojans. Just as Books 2 and 4 parallel each other in some ways (both end with the destruction/confusion of a city and the death

Christ in Aeneid 5?

Book 5 opens with another storm at sea, though this time natural, as the sight of Carthage disappears behind the northward sailing Trojans. Just as Books 2 and 4 parallel each other in some ways (both end with the destruction/confusion of a city and the death
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A quick comparison of different translations of the opening tercet of Inferno 1 with the original Italian: Dorothy Sayers: Midway this way of life we’re bound upon, I woke to find myself in a dark wood, Where the right road was wholly lost and gone. Clive James At the mid-point

A quick comparison of different translations of the opening tercet of Inferno 1 with the original Italian:

Dorothy Sayers:
Midway this way of life we’re bound upon,
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
Where the right road was wholly lost and gone.

Clive James
At the mid-point
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Have you ever heard the sounds of Hell? Felt the darkness and the ice? Tasted the burnt air on your tongue? Dante’s Inferno will give you a flavor of the wretchedness of sin that you will never forget. The images and action that bring you down into the very center of judgment and

Have you ever heard the sounds of Hell? Felt the darkness and the ice? Tasted the burnt air on your tongue? Dante’s Inferno will give you a flavor of the wretchedness of sin that you will never forget. The images and action that bring you down into the very center of judgment and