About Marion Montgomery

Marion Montgomery (1925-2011), poet, novelist, and critic, was author of The Truth of Things: Liberal Arts and The Recovery of Reality and several other books.

The Violent Assault Upon Virtue

By |2021-08-12T15:41:34-05:00August 12th, 2021|Categories: Culture, Featured, Imagination, Literature, Marion Montgomery, Poetry, Timeless Essays, Virtue|

When one dares to enter the country of other men’s souls in quest of understanding about the nature of virtue, he enters a dangerous world. When one dares to enter the country of other men’s souls in quest of understanding about the nature of virtue, he enters a dangerous world, especially when that world is [...]

The Integrity of the Pilgrim Scholar

By |2021-08-12T10:08:18-05:00December 10th, 2016|Categories: Conservatism, Featured, Marion Montgomery, T.S. Eliot|

The primary responsibility of the young scholar is to an integrity as person—that is, to a fulfillment of his gifts as this person, limited in gifts but sharing with humanity a nature as intellectual soul incarnate… Polonius: “What do you read, my lord?” Hamlet: “Words, words, words.” At this turning of a millennium it is [...]

The Violent Assault Upon Imagination

By |2021-08-12T10:24:54-05:00August 22nd, 2016|Categories: Flannery O'Connor, Imagination, Marion Montgomery, Rule of Law, Virtue|

How fallen we are, from Dante and Beatrice to John Hinckley and Jodie Foster. “We did the best job with what we had to work with,” the twenty-two-year-old jury foreman said after the unanimous decision that Hinckley was innocent by reason of insanity. And surely that is a conclusion we must come to, examining the [...]

How Should We Treat the Evil of Flannery O’Connor’s Misfits?

By |2021-08-12T11:10:54-05:00August 15th, 2016|Categories: Flannery O'Connor, Marion Montgomery, Rule of Law|

We encounter all too often in our modern world the spectacular violence of such escapades as the Misfit’s murder of an anonymous family on a Georgia back road. Our daily press is full of such incidents. Its corollary, however, O’Connor expects us to come to through reflection. It is well to be reminded again and [...]

M.E. Bradford & the Intoxicated Air of the Modernist Moment

By |2021-08-12T10:44:26-05:00June 2nd, 2016|Categories: Agrarianism, Aristotle, Books, Dante, Featured, Homer, Literature, M. E. Bradford, Marion Montgomery, Plato, South, Southern Agrarians, St. Augustine|

IV M.E. Bradford The principle underlying the Agrarian­-New Critic’s position as literary critic, shared generally in the New Critical move­ment at large, may be simply put: Some poems are better than other poems. He judges them as things existing in them­selves, made by that intellectual crea­ture—man. The problem term, of course, is better, since it commits intellect, willy­ [...]

M.E. Bradford: Traditionalist as Rememberer

By |2021-08-12T10:47:23-05:00May 26th, 2016|Categories: Agrarianism, Books, Featured, Language, Literature, M. E. Bradford, Marion Montgomery, South, Southern Agrarians, Tradition|

We spoke of much else besides [our business of the day]: of friends and mentors and the tumors of both—their fortunes and misfortunes, their origins and our own; of illustrative stories, many of them drawn from outside the narrow confines of the academy; of adversaries ancient and modern; of our delight in the progress of [...]

The Truth of Things

By |2021-08-12T10:22:34-05:00August 17th, 2013|Categories: Christendom, Culture, Liberal Learning, Marion Montgomery|

Even “academic” specialization might be recovered as desirable, but desirable as a means to a higher end in service to the body of community, not merely servicing the appetitive order of individuals collectively called society, but in service to the community as a body of members. In that term society the nature of community, as [...]

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