Tag: Reading

Currently Reading…The Discarded Image

British Library, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

C.S. Lewis’ The Discarded Image. Lewis’ was a master of medieval and renaissance literature. Like his fellow Inkling, J.R.R. Tolkien, he had the mind of a true medievalist. The Discarded Image was his final published work. It is a testament to his academic thought. The Discarded Image takes us through the mind of medieval man.... Continue Reading →

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What is Elfland?

Jan Brueghel the Elder, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

“He was on a plain on which the flowers were queer and the shape of the trees monstrous.” Edward John Drax Plunkett, better known as Lord Dunsany, was the 18th Baron of Dunsany and he wrote something like 90 works of fiction. His most famous being The King of Elfland’s Daughter. To call the Lord... Continue Reading →

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