Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

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People say, “We are the best educated generation in the history of the world!” Well, we certainly are the most indebted to colleges and universities. I don’t mean that we owe them a lot of gratitude for opening up to us the life of the mind, and the best that has been thought and written and wrought and done. They’re not much in that cultural and human …

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