Re: was CAS an immoderate drinker/smoker?
Posted by:
Dale Nelson (IP Logged)
Date: 22 June, 2021 12:35PM
Knygatin Wrote:
> But on the other hand, it may be viewed as an
> anti-European tract, doesn't it?
Yes -- but the Europe to which the poem's sentiment is opposed is not the Europe of the Great West, that is, of Homer, Herodotus, and Virgil, Plato and Boethius, Bede and Byzantium, Florence and Wittenberg, Dante and Pascal, Malory and Shakespeare and Jane Austen and Dostoevsky; but the successor-Europe that includes the US and Canada and (as T. S. Eliot put it in his essay on Baudelaire) is "a world of electoral reform, plebiscites, sex reform and dress reform," this world of Marx and Henry Ford and Hitler and Mao and Ibram Kendi, etc.
Note correction to text of poem:
Untamed is Europe, unnamed
If you are a man of the Great West, be sure to support homeschooling, which is almost the last refuge thereof.
But my comment belongs better in the thread for discussion of miscellaneous topics. I'm going to copy it and the Lewis poem, and post them there. Please comment there.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 22 Jun 21 | 01:04PM by Dale Nelson.