Audio Category: Literature

Dr. David Allen White’s talks on Catholicism and modern poetry and literature begins with this lecture on Hopkins. Hopkins’ genius in using innovative means to relate eternal truths is underlined....

Dr. David Allen White continues his discussion of Hopkins on the combination of tradition with innovation by reading and commenting on selections of his various poems. Taken from: The Church...

Dr. David Allen White explains the nature and importance of stories in general, as images of the act of Creation, and explores in detail the greatest of the Chansons de...

Dr. David Allen White discusses the Catholic themes to be found in William Shakespeare, whose life bridges the time between the Catholic-Protestant struggle for the soul of England and Elizabeth’s...

Dr. David Allen White explores the “other side of chivalry”; knights were obliged to fight loyally for God and for their lords, but were also obliged to perfect courtesy toward...

Dr. David Allen White illuminates the fact that serious artists have always understood the role of both tragedy and comedy as the two essential sides of the dramatic coin. The...

Dr. David Allen White expounds on Dante’s masterpiece, explaining how The Divine Comedy transforms the faulty notion of courtly love into the mystical union between the soul and God. In...

Dr. David Allen White continues the discussion of the life and work of William Shakespeare. Working with reference to various plays and poems, Dr. David Allen White evokes here the...

Mr. Edwin Faust gives the lecture, Original Sin in Fact and Fiction. Mr. Faust recounts his childhood introduction to the Good, the True and the Beautiful as it was conveyed...

Father Richard Munkelt discusses Homer and how his writings can be shown to point towards God and Christianity. St. Irenaeus spoke of “seeds of the Logos” indicating the good of...