High Culture Quest

Modernism has been presented in all forms of art in (don't be shocked!)  the modern world. When it was fashionable it made writing boring dull and un-lyrical.  There are some exceptions and there are modernists I enjoy, most notably TS Eliot. My main quarrel with most Modernism in writing and art in general, is that it has no ascetical beauty to it. Take a writer like Virginia Woolf, in contrast to my favorite poet other than, Yeats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, whose prose was all about his own self expression of the beauty of the presence of God,  Virginia Woolf  was iconoclastic against lyrical beauty, from the stories I have read from her. She's been called a "stream of consciousness writer" and to be fair she does a pretty good job at details, but as I said the ascetic beauty is rather lacking. In her "A Haunted House." she seems to be suggesting the most utterly absurd idea that ghost stories should prohibit a real belief in the supernatural in contrast...

All my teachers throughout the past few years has known that I have written to the best of my ability of my conviction that beliefs do indeed have consequences.  This is especially true when it comes to all forms of art,  but how do I know this? I have this conviction first of all because I am religious man and a committed Roman Catholic, the religion's whose moral and spiritual code I belief produces everything great on this earth, but put me aside, every artist is writing, painting or composing from a point of view take Communist artists for example they are trying to represent how the bourgeois  elites are corrupt and the proletariat must take over the world that is a belief, or take Fascist sculptors like Josef Thorak who try and represent the might, power and supremacy  of the Aryan Race. Now I use these two shocking and really abhorrent examples of beliefs to get across a point that all art absolutely comes from any person's ...