How to navigate this site
This site contains CWNY’s works from 3/3/12 through 7/31/21, when CWNY ceased writing, as noted by his family in The Minstrel Sleeps. To download a pdf of all posts from this time period, go to About this site. (You may also download individual posts and pages, using a plugin we’ve made available.)
Please note that this site includes all posts from his previously de-platformed blog, which were completely restored as of 6/10/22. Should you wish to view only those restored posts, use the category link: Older posts (pre-April 2019).
For CWNY’s writing from 5/25/06 to 2/25/12, visit his older blog, still available here.
More content on this site is also available on the Remembrances page, which includes his final, albeit unfinished, Christmas story, and To His Readers (4/21/19), which he posted after his return from being deplatformed.
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- 19th Century Christian Authors
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Anthony Jacob
- C. S. Lewis
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- D. P. Dugauquier
- D. P. Duguauquier
- de la Motte Fouque
- Dostoyevsky
- Dream of the Rood
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edmund Burke
- G. M. Trevelyan
- George Fitzhugh
- H. V. Morton
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Henry Francis Lyte
- Herbert Butterfield
- Herman Melville
- Hippolyte Taine
- Ian Maclaren
- J. S. LeFanu
- Johanna Spyri
- John Buchan
- John Donne
- John Sharp Williams
- Kenneth Grahame
- Le Fanu
- N.F.S. Grundtvig
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Richard Weaver
- Robert Lewis Dabney
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Rudyard Kipling
- Shakespeare
- St. John
- St. Paul
- Stark Young
- Thomas Hughes
- Thomas Nelson Page
- Walter Scott
- Washington Irving
- Weyl & Marina
- Wilbur Daniel Steele
Archives
Category Archives: Poets vs philosophers
Through a Glass Darkly
All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. There they are unguarded. Above all, good men do not suspect that their destruction is attempted through their virtues. This their enemies are perfectly aware of: … Continue reading
The Return to Our Blood Faith
“Speculation performs the feat of understanding all Christianity, but, please note, it does not understand it Christianly but speculatively, which is precisely the misunderstanding, since Christianity is the very opposite of speculation.” – Soren Kierkegaard _____ “It is only the … Continue reading
The Lay of the European Minstrel
Hush’d is the harp: the Minstrel gone.And did he wander forth alone?Alone, in indigence and age,To linger out his pilgrimage?No; close beneath proud Newark’s tower,Arose the Minstrel’s lowly bower;A simple hut; but there was seenThe little garden hedged with green,The … Continue reading
On Scott’s Birthday
Canto Sixth Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne’er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on … Continue reading
In the Sight of God
So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceiv’d with ornament. – Merchant of Venice __________ All European revolutions and counter-revolutions are started and sustained by people who think that all of their actions on behalf … Continue reading
The Return
Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, those soft touches wafted through the air…” — The Wind in the Willows __________ Donald Davidson lived long enough to be condemned by his fellow Southerners and Northern liberals as a … Continue reading