High Culture Quest

The greatest Irish poet of the past centuries, William Butler Yeats was a complex character, even for Ireland. He was born into the Protestant Aristocratic culture of southern Ireland who are known as the Anglo-Irish. He wrote some of the greatest poetry of the twentieth century in English, and was a conservative Irish Nationalist, and a sometime Irish politician. He's quite frankly tied with Gerard Manley Hopkins for my favorite English speaking poets, ever. His prose style has influenced me greatly both in my own writing and my imagination.  Like most Anglo-Irish he didn't care for  Catholicism that much, which was the majority religion of the rank and file of Irish men and women. Yet he admired and loved the legends and folklore of the Irish people some of which predated Christianity but was never officially condemned by the Church in Ireland to my knowledge, and if you ask a Catholic Irish peasant, I'm sure they would have seen their p...

                                                                                The name of this blog  is High Culture Quest because I want to share    my love of classical literature both  fiction, and non. I want to show that literature is essential to all   cultures particularly in the western/European tradition, which is where all ill be drawing my focus on. I will deal with everything from religious works to Historical Fiction. I  also will be arguing how Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels deserved to be considered works of high art and are very valuable to our culture. I hope to accomplish this as well as continue to develop my writing style as well as to help people understand literature in a concrete way. I also just want to s...