Can Great Poetry Survive the Post-revolutionary West?
This is the text of a presentation given to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum on 27 September 2019 by Prof. Barry Spurr, as part of the…
Barry Spurr
Introduction and Welcome to the Second 2017 Symposium of the Sydney Traditionalist Forum
The last three years have been, to put it mildly, eventful. Cultural and political developments seem to have accelerated at a pace previously unimaginable: at…
2017 Symposium II – Barry Spurr
Reclaiming the University The tolerance practised by modern elites is tyrannical. They say: ‘You must listen to what I am going to say. Then you…
Commemoration of the Anniversary of T. S. Eliot’s Baptism and Confirmation
T.S. Eliot described himself as “Anglo-Catholic in religion” and was one of the best-known lay representatives of Anglo-Catholicism in the 20th century. The 90th anniversary…
The Free Mind: Festschrift for Prof. Barry Spurr
In Character and Culture (1940) Irving Babbitt wrote that “practicality pursued mechanically and one-sidedly may become a vice.”1 One might interpret this as a warning…
Introduction and Welcome to the 2016 Symposium of the Sydney Traditionalist Forum
Though we inhabit an era marked by rapid scientific advance and technological proliferation, evidence of cultural decay and social rot dominates our experience of modern…
2016 Symposium – Barry Spurr
“Falling Towers”: T.S. Eliot, the Decline of the West and the Doctrine of the Incarnation I Central to T.S. Eliot’s Anglo-Catholic faith and practice, which…