Insights into reality itself
Malcolm Guite on the philosophical concerns underlying Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Christina Rossetti and George MacDonald revisited
Alan Jacobs talks about the theme of renunciation in Christina Rossetti’s poems, and Stephen Prickett looks at aspects of nineteenth-century Romanticism from which George MacDonald’s work emerges. (33 minutes)
Fujimura, Hibbs, & Siedell: Abstraction, immanence, & the cultural landscape
Artist, philosopher, and art historian discuss the tension between self-expression, transcendence, and the material world.