In the light of Christ : writings in the Western tradition

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Introduction: the order of love

Aeschylus and Sophocles

Plato

Rome: Cicero and Virgil

Augustine I: Confessions

Augustine II: City of God

The Benedictine centuries I: Benedict, Boethius, Cassiodorus, Gregory and Bede

The Benedictine centuries II: Anselm, Bernard and Aelred

Dante

Shakespeare I: Henry VI to Measure for Measure

Shakespeare II: Othello to Henry VIII

The seventeenth century I: Donne, Herbert and Milton

The seventeenth century II: Pascal

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Henry Newman and Matthew Arnold

G.M. Hopkins and Emily Dickinson

George Santayana, Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot

Russia I: Pushkin to The Devils

Russia II: The brothers Karamazov to Solzhenitsyn

D.H. Lawrence, F.R. Lewis, Samuel Beckett, Simone Weil and Saul Bellow

Czesław Miłosz and Pope John Paul II