The Imaginative Conservative ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Reflection:
Waiting with Our Lady for the coming of Our Saviour, we will meditate each day of Advent on a different aspect of the circumstances of His birth, the moment of The Incarnation amongst us.
ARRIVAL AT BETHLEHEM GATE

The “Aeneid” was only possible because the Roman people had the memory and consciousness to make it possible. It is up to us to ensure that its living well of memory doesn’t dry up. Without it, the “Aeneid” will pass into the dustbin of history like...

What’s unnerving about Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” is that it embraces and glorifies the creature in ways that remind me, on one hand, of the Romantic valorization of Milton’s Satan, and on the other, of our contemporary headlong development...

If snow falls where you live – or if in warmer climes, you reach for your jacket – read “Ethan Frome” to mark the season, for winter hangs over the novella. Though many readers regard Edith Wharton’s tale as one of a man tormented by the social tyranny...