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Rome and Romanticism
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What is Romanticism? What do Rome and Romanticism have in common? How do they differ? Does Romanticism sometimes lead to Rome? These questions are considered in this essay of mine, just published by the National Catholic Register:
Radio Interview on My Latest Book
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I’ve just given an hour-long radio interview with the wonderful Jesuit, Fr. Robert McTeigue, discussing my new book Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know:
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Link to the broadcast as podcast:
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Are Men as the Time Is?
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I muse upon this question in an essay in Faith & Culture:
How I Was Wrong About the New Tolkien Film
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My dire prophesies about the new Tolkien film, based upon fears arising from the agenda of the screenwriters, have proved unfounded. I’ve never been happier to be proven wrong! Here’s my “apology”:
Interview on the St. Austin Review
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Here’s an interview I gave recently on my role as editor of the St. Austin Review:
New Tolkien Work Discovered
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Admirers of both Tolkien and Chaucer will be excited to learn of the discovery of a previously unknown manuscript by the former about the latter:
Coming Soon to the Inner Sanctum
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I’ve scheduled five more posts that will be uploaded to the Inner Sanctum of my website (jpearce.co) this week.
Tolkien & Lewis Lecture #30
The thirtieth lecture in a 45-part series of audio lectures on the works of Tolkien and Lewis.
Favourite Books of 2010
Having stumbled upon an essay listing and describing the favourite new books that I read in 2010, I thought I’d share it with my inner-circle of friends.
Hamlet and the Reductionism of Relativism
I wrote this satirical essay as a way of exposing the absurdity of the modern academy, especially with respect to its abuse of Shakespeare.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
In this essay I look at a couple of famous atheists who saw the light, recanting their atheism, suggesting that Richard Dawkins should take note.
Ladydale Diary
The latest in my weekly diary charting daily life with the Pearce family. This week’s diary focuses on critters of various kinds, especially several close encounters of a serpentine kind.
Apart from these five new posts, which will be uploaded over the next week or so, there is now more than six months of content in the Inner Sanctum, all of which is available exclusively to those who become donor-subscribers and supporters of my work by joining my inner circle of friends. I do hope you will consider joining us.
Shakespeare and the Saints
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The Catholic Herald has just published an article of mine on the influence of the saints on Shakespeare’s Muse: