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The Cultivated Amateur

Esther Jane

"People have been created by God with an aesthetic faculty that demands cultivation." Leland Ryken "The artist needs to be complemented by the cultivated amateur, who...has some idea what to do with the artist's work." Northrop Frye

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A Lover Laments, the Beloved Replies

Allegory of the Eucharist, Alexander Coosemans

What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?

I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.

Psalm 116

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A Hint of Gold

Caravaggio, Beheading of John the Baptist

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C.S. Lewis, in a letter to Mary Willis Shelburne

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Education: what is it good for?

“Norman Rockwell Visits a Country School,” Saturday Evening Post, November 2, 1946, pg. 24-25.

Education. What is it good for?

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The Swing - Children in the Woods, Martin Johnson Heade

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  • Esther Jane

    Christian, wife, mother, non-academic. I write about what interests me, mostly literature, sometimes education, always with the goal of seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary.

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