The Influence of Virgil and St. Augustine on Waugh's Brideshead Revisited | Prof. Patrick Callahan
The Thomistic Institute
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The Rise and Fall of Hooper
Hooper had wept often, but never for Henry's speech on St. Crispin's Day, nor for the epitaph of Thermopylae. In history, they taught him, had had few battles in it. Gullipoli, Balaklava, Quebec, La Panto, Bannekburne, Rosambo, and Marathon. These in the battle in the West were Arthur Fell and 100 such names whose trumpet notes called me irresistibly across the intervening years. With all the clarity and strength that boyhood sounded in vain to Hooper.
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