The Dispatch

Dana Gioia’s Memento Mori

February 17, 2023 Edward Short 1

In beginning and ending in the underworld, Dana Gioia’s new book of poetry Meet Me At The Lighthouse gives his latest poems an arresting perspective from which he can essay subjects of profound import, including […]

Books

T.S. Eliot and Uncritical Biography

January 14, 2023 Edward Short 10

I The other day, I was reading Eugenio Montale’s introduction to Allen Mandlebaum’s translation of The Divine Comedy and I was struck by the wisdom of something the modern Italian poet said, and it was […]

Essay

The Hole in Your Culture

April 5, 2022 Dr. Douglas Farrow 8

In his Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948), T. S. Eliot writes that “all parties live in amity, so long as they accept some common moral conventions.” While that may seem rather general and somewhat overstated, it is […]

Books

Divine Ironies

May 1, 2021 Joshua Hren 4

From its very outset Christianity was . . . a feeling which merely disgusted, hid and decked itself out in its belief in a ‘another’ or ‘better’ life . . . a Beyond, invented in […]