Dr. Jason Baxter returns to the show again to talk about his new translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy, his book “Why Literature Still Matters”, as well as his upcoming course, “How to Read a Poem like C.S. Lewis (And Fall in Love with Poetry) “.
As something of a preview of the upcoming course, he has an article on his Substack page called Two Secrets for Reading Poetry like C. S. Lewis.
Show Notes
01. “Dr. Jason Baxter”
- Dr. Baxter’s books
- Dr. Jason Baxter on Pints With Jack
- A Beginner’s Guide to Dante’s Divine Comedy
- The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
- Center for Beauty and Culture
02. “The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis”
03. “Dante”
- The Divine Comedy: Inferno
- The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio
- Sarah Smith is a character in The Great Divorce
- Giotto
- Beothius
- Wendel Berry
- Does Lewis imitate The Divine Comedy in Chapters 14-17 of Perelandra?
- The Blue Room is introduced in Chapter 7 of That Hideous Strength
- Pied Beauty by Gerard Manly Hopkins
- The Harp and Laurel Wreath: Poetry and Dictation for the Classical Curriculum
- The Habit of Perfect by Gerard Manly Hopkins
- As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Selected and Annotated Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Holly Ordway
04. “Why Literature Still Matters”
- Why Literature Still Matters
- The Abolition of Man
- You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, and Prayer by Joy Clarkson
- Owen Barfield series on The Plunge
