Michael Tomko

The Last Romantic

Arts & Literature

“Jeffrey W. Barbeau's eloquent and accessible lectures look past the blinding assumptions of standard intellectual history to discover a modern C. S. Lewis inspired by religious Romanticism—a vital, creative tradition of poetry and thought that unites the subjective and objective, the personal and the divine. Lewis's place in this visionary company was there all along, expressed in his stories, essays, self-representations, and previously unpublished marginalia. Thanks to Barbeau, we may also see that Lewis, like Elijah on Horeb, was not alone as the last inspiring, faithful Romantic.”