Reading the Old Books: Great Literature & the Life of Faith
Jennifer A. Newton-SavardMy intermittent blog on British literature and the Christian faith: sometimes more scholarly pieces, sometimes shorter reflections on a literary work, to introduce readers to great literature!
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Memorizing George Herbert’s Poem “The Agony”
Stained glass behind the altar of St. Andrew’s Church, Bemerton, outside Salisbury, England
This fall I’m teaching a course on the Christian Imagination and the Arts, part of which asks students to consider depictions of Christ in visual a...
George Herbert's "Mattens"
“George Herbert at Bemerton” (1860) by William Dyce (Guildhall Art Gallery, London)
I am not a morning person and never have been. My mind is always its sharpest later in the day.
Therefore, I have a hard time grasping the concept of Mati...
Ireland's St. Kevin, Seamus Heaney, and the Monastic Settlement at Glendalough
Glendalough round tower, Wicklow, Ireland; my photo May 2026
Somewhere in researching potential day-trips in Ireland for the education abroad trip I co-led recently, I stumbled upon Seamus Heaney’s poem “St Kevin & the Blackbird.” Take a l...
Not all who wander are lost: Lessons from the Old English Poem “Widsith”
harp at the Anglo-Saxon exhibit in the British Museum
This week I am once again reading the lesser-known Old English poem “Widsith” with my English graduate students. I wrote about this poem some years back and have lightly updated and re-...
Spelling the Wonders of God’s Creation: The Old English Poem “The Order of the World”
Photo by Richard James on Unsplash
As I begin preparing to teach a medieval literature course this spring, I’m recalling a blog I wrote a few years back on a lesser-known Old English poem titled “The Order of the World.” I plan to teach th...
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Professor of English at California Baptist University Writer of an occasional literary blog, “Reading the Old Books: Great Literature and the Life of Faith,” found originally at readingtheoldbooks.blogspot.com and now at Substack
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