February 7th, 2008
Thank God, we had really begun to miss our beloved Godspy. The new site looks terrific.
And our very own Idylls Press illustrator and reviewer, John Murphy, has contributed a lovely article to the new Godspy 2.0 launch; Radiohead: Together in the Alone–it made this Boomer ask her son for a Radiohead “best songs” compilation, [...]
January 1st, 2008
We’re going to be migrating the site this week to a new server, so please don’t be surprised if the site is down for a short while. Pardon our webdust!
December 22nd, 2007
On this beautiful Saturday before Christmas, we here at Idylls Press would like to thank all of you for your interest and support of our little project of bringing new and classic Catholic literature into print. It’s been a challenging year, what with our preparations to relocate to Ashland, Oregon, but we’ve been impressed by [...]
The concentration resulting fom a framework of theology and philosophy, [T.S. Eliot] says, is one of the reasons ‘why Dante is a classic and Blake only a poet of genius.’ The intellectual disorder of the nineteenth century gave the poet no such system, indeed it imposed upon him the necessity of being at once an artist and an original speculative thinker—an impossible combination. Thus the effort to construct for himself a workable plan out of the odds and ends of the wreckage of philosophical systems not infrequently resulted in grotesque and unsteady structures, the early collapse of which left him a prey to despair and frustration.
— , The Catholic Literary Revival:Three Phases in its Development from 1845 to the Present
