Daniel Morgan

Daniel Morgan, a Christian of the Reformed creed, is an "Old World" medievalist. That is, he is a student who actually applauds the Middle Ages rather than explaining it away with patronizing excuses or academic objectivity. (Chesterton once said that Sir Walter Scott "could only be a medievalist by becoming what he would call an antiquary, or what we should call an aesthete. He had to pretend his love was dead, that he might be allowed to love her.") Daniel is a recent graduate of Houston Baptist University, and would be a fellow traveler but for the high cost of living in Europe. He's a sucker for a good conspiracy theory, but fears he himself might be part of some vast right wing conspiracy. In the meantime, you can catch him doting on Jonathan Edwards, Iconoclasm, Mythology, the Agrarian Tradition, and those perennially misunderstood Protestant medievalists: the Puritans.

E-mail: dmorganprimum-mobile.net
Daniel Morgan's Ex Libris page

Essays in Primum Mobile:

The Three Important Things (#1, September 2004)
A Vision of the Logos: The Christian and Poetic Diction (#2, October 2004)
The Art of Saving Face and the Fuss over a Holy Form (#3, November 2004)
On The Dream of Scipio, by Iain Pears (#3, November 2004)
Christians in the Mist (#4, December 2004)
Persephone Waits at the Wishing Well (#4, December 2004)
Honor to Whom Honor: An Appreciation of Ancient Man (#5, January 2005)
The World at Land's End (#6, February 2004)
The Eye of Odin and the End of Reflection (#7, March 2004)
Finding Church for the First Time (#8, April 2005)
The Rape of the Lost (#9, May 2005)
Crosses in the Clouds: There's Just Something About Faërie (#10, June 2005)
Greener on the Other Side: Yeats' Occult Obsession as Key to His Universal Vision (#11, July 2005)
The Castrated Imagination (#12, August 2005)
Despair of Oblivion: The Religious Vision of John Updike (#14, November 2005)
Some Remarks on Chivalry: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (#15, January 2006)
Towards a More Perfect Representation (#16, March 2006)
Of the Original Mystery Plays (#17, May 2006)
Of Christian Satisfaction, Among Other Stumbling Blocks (#18, July 2006)
This Side of Victory (#19, September 2006)
Leading Justice to Victory (#21, January 2007)
Starting places (#22, March 2007)

Poetry in Primum Mobile:

From the journal of the late Elliot Oldcastle, 9 Oct. 2003 (#1, September 2004)
What Comes with Clay (#1, September 2004)
Unfamiliar Woods (#2, October 2004)
The Watchman's Song (#2, October 2004)
From the journal of the late Elliot Oldcastle, 1 March 2002: "Thoughts on the Convalescence of the Soul" (#3, November 2004)
From the journal of the late Elliot Oldcastle, 12 March 2002: "Upon a Dear Friend's Reconciliation" (#3, November 2004)
Flood and Windfall (#4, December 2004)
The Age of Belief (#6, February 2004)
Falling Away: The Apostate's Song (#7, March 2004)
The Wounding Hours (#8, April 2005)
A Sake of Ephemera (#9, May 2005)
Seceding (#10, June 2005)
Behind Mill Trail (#11, July 2005)
Summer Leaves (#12, August 2005)
Apokalupsis: The Age of Belief II (#15, January 2006)
Marred (#16, March 2006)
To Hope and Lily (#17, May 2006)
As woman drawn from Adam's side (#18, July 2006)
Monsieur Quidam Ruminates on Love, Depravity, and Penance (as best he knows how) (#20, November 2006)
Napping after a New Thaw of Frost (#20, November 2006)
Fountains of Deep, Windows of Heaven (#21, January 2007)
Anatomy of the Dance (#21, January 2007)
Dreaming of Delphi with M (#21, January 2007)
A Draught of Heavenly Alchemy (#22, March 2007)