Apr 11, 2017 | Author - Ron Dart
Hermann Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game (part 1) analysis by Ron Dart Hermann Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game (part 2) analysis by Ron Dart
Apr 6, 2017 | Author - Ron Dart
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was viewed, in the 1960s-1970s, in North America, as a spiritual and literary icon of sorts. He embodied the best of the counter culture in a probing and poignant manner. He was, as Theodore Ziolkowski rightly notes, “Saint Hesse among the...
Mar 26, 2017 | Author - Ron Dart
I lift up my eyes to the hills. - Psalm 121:1 There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men – Maurice Herzog, Annapurna Mountains and hills, snow robed peaks and knife edged turrets have a way of drawing the spirit and soul to the heights. There are rock...
Mar 22, 2017 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: How Desolate and Forbidding Heights were Transformed into Experiences of Indomitable Spirit (New York: Pantheon Books, 2003). O the mind, mind has mountains – Gerard Manley Hopkins From death in valleys preserve me, O...
Mar 15, 2017 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Review of The North American High Tory Tradition With what has been transpiring on the US side of the border, it might be tempting to wag our Canadian fingers. Ron Dart, prodigious writer, mountaineer, poet, political science prof, and one of Canada’s leading...
