Lionel Basney

Lionel Basney (December 2, 1946 - August 21, 1999) was a poet and professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Prior to his time at Calvin, Basney taught at Houghton College, where his father also taught before him. Basney was interested in Samuel Johnson, William Shakespeare, and Ned Ludd and the origins of the Luddite movement. He was the author of "An Earth-Careful Way of Life: Christian Stewardship and the Environmental Crisis".

In 2000, The Conference on Christianity and Literature at Pepperdine University began awarding the annual Lionel Basney Prize "to the article deemed by the CCL Publications Committee to be the most outstanding article of the year in "Christianity and Literature". According to the website, "the award...commemorates both the scholarly career and the personal character of a teacher, scholar, poet, and essayist who, during nearly two decades of affiliation with Calvin College, was deeply committed to CCL and all that it seeks to promote." [ [http://www.pepperdine.edu/sponsored/ccl/mla/basney.htm Basney Award - The Conference on Christianity & Literature ] ]

According to Basney,

Wendell Berry's "Life is a miracle: an Essay Against Modern Superstition" is dedicated to Basney.

References

Works

*"Myth, History and Time in "The Lord of the Rings" in "Understanding the Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism" By Rose A. Zimbardo, Neil David Isaacs 2004 Houghton Mifflin ISBN 0618422536
*"An Earth-Careful Way of Life: Christian Stewardship and the Environmental Crisis", Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1994 ISBN 0830813225
*"Five Notes on the Didactic Tradition, in Praise of Wendell Berry" in Paul Merchant, editor. "Wendell Berry" (American Authors Series). Lewiston, Idaho: Confluence, 1991. 174-183.
* [http://www.theotherside.org/archive/may-jun97/basney.html "Technolatry Unmasked"] . "The Other Side" 33.3 (May/June 1997)
* [http://www1.christianity.net/bc/8B5/8B5018.html "Questioning Progress: The Resurrection of Ned Ludd"] . "Books & Culture" 4.5 (September/October 1998): 18
* [http://www.calvin.edu/academic/engl/misc/medt_lb.htm "Meditations for Lent 1999"] . "The Banner" February-March 1999
*"Immanuel's Ground." "The American Scholar": 68.3 (Summer 1999): 109-120
*"'His Proper Business': Johnson's Adjustment to Society." "Texas Studies in Literature and Language": 32.3 (Fall 1990): 397-416
*"Prudence in the Life of Savage." ELN: 28.2 (Dec. 1990): 17-24
*"Narrative and Judgment in the Life of Savage." "Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly": 14.2 (Spring 1991): 153-64
*"Having Your Meaning at Hand: Work in Snyder and Berry", in: "World, Self, Poem: Essays on Contemporary Poetry from the Jubilation of Poets", ed Leonard M. Trawick. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1990, pp. 130-143.
*"Review of Collected Poems 1957-1982" Chri and Lit, 25 (Summer 1986), 31-32.
* [http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1996/spring/basney-mia-california/ "Mia California: An Opera Journal"] in "Virginia Quarterly Review", Spring 1996
*"Ecology and the Scriptural Concept of the Master"; III:1
*"The Balanced Mind: Johnson's Christian Empiricism"; III:3
*"'Lucidus Ordo': Johnson and Generality" "Eighteenth-Century Studies", Vol. 5, No. 1 (Autumn, 1971), pp. 39-57
*"The Snow Plough Man" ("Christianity and Literature" 50:3)

External links

* [http://www.calvin.edu/academic/engl/people/basney/ Memorial page] by the Calvin College English Department
* [http://www.dwarfrune.com/~basnc/basney.htm Memorial page] by Claire (Basney) Ramsey
* [http://www-stu.calvin.edu/chimes/990910/features_04.html Poem by Basney]
* [http://clubs.calvin.edu/chimes/990910/index.html "Tragedy befalls community"] obituary in 10 Sept 1999 "Calvin College Chimes"
* [http://www.pepperdine.edu/sponsored/ccl/mla/basney.htm The Conference on Christianity and Literature's Lionel Basney Award]