Episode 127: The Literary Life of Kay Pelham
On The Literary Life podcast today, our hosts are bringing you another \u201cLiterary Life Of\u201d interview episode. This week\u2019s guest is Kay Pelham, a lifelong reader, veteran homeschooling mother, and accomplished pianist. After sharing their commonplace quotes, Angelina, Cindy and Kay dig into their conversation about the journey of Kay\u2019s reading life. She shares a little about her family of story-tellers and readers, her personal reading versus school studies, and how her reading life changed as a young adult. Kay also talks about how she came to homeschool using Charlotte Mason\u2019s philosophy. The discussion turns to Kay\u2019s self-education journey as an older adult and she gives encouragement for anyone coming to this later in life. You can read Kay\u2019s own thoughts on books and more at KayPelham.com.
Join us this spring for our next Literary Life Conference \u201cThe Battle Over Children\u2019s Literature\u201d featuring special guest speaker Vigen Guroian. The live online conference will take place April 7-9, 2022, and you can go to HouseofHumaneLetters.com for more information.
Commonplace Quotes:When children come to school, they can read and speak. When they leave school they can do neither the one nor the other.
Arthur Burrell, from \u201cRecitation, the Children\u2019s Art\u201d in The Parent\u2019s Review
It is my settled conviction that in order to read Old Western Literature aright, you must suspend most of the responses and unlearn most of the habits you have acquired in reading modern literature.
C. S. Lewis
MozartMythology is the embryo of literature and the arts, not of science, and no form of art has anything to do with making direct statements about nature, mistaken or correct. Similarly, as science does not grow out of mythology, so it can never replace mythology. Mythology is recreated by the poets in each generation, while science goes its own way.
Northrup Frye
by Maurice Baring
The sunshine, and the grace of falling rain,
The fluttering daffodil, the lilt of bees,
The blossom on the boughs of almond trees,
The waving of the wheat upon the plain\u2014
And all that knows not effort, strife or strain,
And all that bears the signature of ease,
The plunge of ships that dance before the breeze
The flight across the twilight of the crane:
And all that joyous is, and young, and free,
That tastes of morning and the laughing surf;
The dawn, the dew, the newly turned-up turf,
The sudden smile, the unexpressive prayer,
The artless art, the untaught dignity,\u2014
You speak them in the passage of an air.
Books Mentioned:
Creation and Recreation by Northrup Frye
If I Were Going: The Alice and Jerry Basic Reader by Mabel O\u2019Donnell
My Bookhouse edited by Olive B. Miller
Tending the Heart of Virtue by Vigen Guroian
The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Boys by Ron and Clint Howard
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