Philip Zaleski Quotes

Poetry of World War I, at least in its lyrical mode, was itself the last flowering of the Age of Innocence that preceded the war, that the horrors of the trenches sparked the final blossoming, as friction gives rise to fire; that the daily nightmare unfolding before the soldiers sharpened their sense of beauty, prophecy, and mission.

Philip Zaleski

Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.

Philip Zaleski

Passion does not translate easily into good income.

Philip Zaleski

We must picture Oxford, during World War I, not as the neomedieval paradise it would like to be, but as the military compound it was obliged to become.

Philip Zaleski