Reading as a Spiritual Practice review

"Until very recent years, civilized folk took it for granted that literature exists to form the normative consciousness: that is, to teach human beings their true nature, their dignity, and their rightful place in the scheme of things. Such has been the end of poetry—in the larger sense of that word—ever since Job and Homer.” Since Russell Kirk wrote these words in 1977, matters have drifted further from this ideal. Jessica Hooten Wilson is disturbed by the state of reading, particularly … [Read more...] about Reading as a Spiritual Practice