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...
Feb 23, 2017 | Author - Lazar Puhalo, Author - Ron Dart
Review of Mystical Landscapes: From Vincent van Gogh to Emily Carr. Edited by Katharine Lochman with Roald Nasgaard & Bogomila Welsch-Ovcharov (New York: DelMonico Books, 2016). Review by Ron Dart There has been a regrettable tendency to falsely...
Feb 10, 2017 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Saint John Chrysostom: Letters to Saint Olympia. Trans. and Intro. by David C. Ford (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press: New York, 2016). There has been a dearth of sorts in the English speaking world of a solid book that covers, in thoughtful depth and...
