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Duration: 44:41 — Talk delivered on Friday, September 26, 2025
With Mortal Voice, Unchanged: Paradise Lost and the Fortunate Fall
—R. V. Young—
Touchstone Senior Editor, Professor, Author
R. V. Young is Professor of English Emeritus at North Carolina State University, and a former editor of Modern Age: A Quarterly Review. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Idea of Western Civilization (Catholic University of America Press). He and his wife are parishioners at St. Ignatius of Antioch Church in Tarpon Springs, Florida. They have five grown children, fifteen grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. He is a senior editor of Touchstone.
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