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Willa Cather's "The Professor's House".

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From: New Criterion
Date: 20000101
Author:Lyons, Donald

For there to be a humanitas and for this to build up a "world" around itself, a habitable "cosmos" on earth, this classical common sense posited a natural and divine "cosmos" as an original and prior ontological model, independent of all human manipulation.

--Marc Fumaroli (1999)

Willa Cather's novel The Professor's House (19Z5) is an inquiry into the nature of civilization, of man's impulse to civilize and create. The book holds in majestic and mournful equipoise both the nobility of the civilizing instinct and the certainty of its frustration.

The book is divided ...

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