The Influence of Virgil and St. Augustine on Waugh's Brideshead Revisited | Prof. Patrick Callahan
The Thomistic Institute
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The Importance of Orphism
The character Jasper is kind of this one-off character. The description that when we first meet Jasper is that Jasper had to the exhausted, but resentful heir of one who fears he has failed at doing himself full justice on the subject of Pindar's orphism. He has this moment of conversion, hearing something that is eerily similar to what Saint Augustine heard that converted him. This is a difference here between what we now in the 21st century understand about orphic religion and mysticism.
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