The Influence of Virgil and St. Augustine on Brideshead Revisited | Prof. Patrick Callahan
The Thomistic Institute
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The Prologue to Brideshead
In the prologue to Brideshead or Visitor, Charles Ryder is commissioned to go off in the army at the age of 39. He has a younger man assigned to him Hooper. In fact, this is a very comical scene where he sort of checks and sees whether any newspapers correctly describing the youth because anytime they say young people or the youth, he substitutes the name Hooper. And I want to make a clear distinction in terms of what Waus saw as a turning point here culturally, what was separating his generation and the generation that came after. So Hooper had wept often, but never for Henry's speech on St. Crispin's Day, nor for the
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