Books & Essays

“Hymns to the Night” / 2025 Conference Texts

Canadian virtuoso, Emmanuel Vukovich   Hymns to the Night The Fairytale of Eros and Fable Celebrating the Mountain / 2025 Edition     Hymns to the Night by Novalis is "the most important poem of early [German] romanticism and a work that finds its rank...

“The Fairy Tale” of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily / by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

". . . the germinal seed of the anthroposophical movement"  -- Rudolf Steiner     Click Cover Photo to Preview or Purchase   "For those whose acquaintance with Goethe’s "The Fairy Tale" of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily  is through the 1832...

“Eros and Fable” by Novalis

“Marriage of Cupid and Psyche.” Decorations of the Loggia di Psiche in the Villa Farnesina, Rome. By Raphael and his workshop.   Dear Friends, In preparation for the 2025 North American Section Conference in San Francisco (May 9-12) I spoke about The Fairytale of...

“Dante and Giotto; A Conversation” An Essay by Albert Steffen

"Flight into Egypt" / Giotto   "Dante and Giotto; A Conversation" by Albert Steffen   The most wonderful example of how a poet and painter, complementing each other in word and picture, can learn from one another is perhaps that of Dante and Giotto. A...