“Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and never can be fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.” ― … Continue reading
Category Archives: Literature
Classical Writing … this summer :) ADVANCED POETRY
So what are we up to this summer at Classical Writing? Advanced Poetry is on the front burner here. This book is already written, and currently in its last stages of editing. It is a one semester high school level … Continue reading
The True, the Good, and the Beautiful
“And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.” Mark 10:18 The Good Now we get to ‘the good’. Like the True, we tend to ‘know it when we see … Continue reading
The True, the Good, the Beautiful Part III
In this blog, I want to finish out the comments wanted to make about ‘the true’. This article from Forbes is entitled ”It is all based on trust”. It is about the stock market and investors’ trust in where they … Continue reading
The True, the Good, the Beautiful, part II
TRUTH Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness … Continue reading
Preparing to Read the Great Books
Classical Writing’s recommended literature selections are now available on our website. But I have since received several emails about how to prepare for (as well as how to tackle) reading what we call “Great Books”. Well, let’s start by saying that every … Continue reading
Using Older Literature in Classical Education
Among those educators who honestly strive hard to teach kids to write well, who believe in punctuation, spelling, syntactical, and logical correctness, there are two schools of thought: 1. The correctness school: People in this school tend to prefer modern … Continue reading
Books and Movies
Recently I began to dig into a book called Story. It is a handbook for writing screen plays for movies. No …I have no aspirations towards writing for the silver screen, but in preparation for Classical Writing – Shakespeare, I … Continue reading