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Tag Archives: Andrew Motion
FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET: Sail Away to Victimhood
Huckleberry Finn as everyman. Chronic suffering of brain cramps, broken by occasional lapses of sanity. The decision by a publishing house, NewSouth Books, from Alabama, to exchange the nigger word in Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn”, , for “slave” , or … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alex Thomas, Allan Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Motion, D.H. Lawrence, Eminen, Francoise Duresse, Graeme Dalling, Howard Jacobson, Huckleberry Finn, James Baldwin, Joe Speare, John Mullan Guardian, John Steinbeck, Kara Walker, Mark Twain, Michael Franti, Nathaniel Turner, Nicholas Lezard, Nicholas Lezard Guardian, Randy Newman, Richard Wright, Samuel Clemens, Shaquille O'Neal, The Finkler Question
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TRUTH AS COMEDY: FIDDLER ON JANE AUSTEN’S ROOF
Some critics describe Jane Austen’s works as novels of social comedy. When she wrote Pride and Prejudice she was just twenty-one years old. Her literary life was comprised between 1786 and 1817. A characteristic for the eighteenth century was the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Rann, Andre Gide, Andrew Motion, Anne Hathaway, Audrey Bilger, Ben H. Winters, Caryl Churchill, Catherine Dean, Charles Lamb, Charlotte Bronte, Claire Harman, Colin Firth, Daniel Defoe, David Hirsch, David Lodge, Dominique Enright, Elsemarie Maletzke, Emma Thompson, F.R. Leavis, Fanny Burney, Felix Feneon, Fielding, Goldwin Smith, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Howard Jacobson, Jan Fergus, Jane Austen, Jonathan Swift, Leslie Stephen, Lionel Trilling, Maria Edgeworth, Michael Kellner, Michael Thomas Ford, Moliere, Monteiro Belisa, Pamela Mooman, Philip Roth, Richard Simpson, Robert Morrison, Rudyard Kipling, Sam Leith, Sandie Byrne, Sarah Lyall, Seth Grahame-Smith, Shakespeare, Stephane Mallarme, Thackeray, Thomas Macaulay, Virginia Woolf, Wayne Josephson, William Hogarth, William James Dawson
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CONSUMING DESIRE FOR THE GIRL NEXT DOOR
Over the centuries the ancient capital of the world has exerted a powerful attraction on tourists, and especially on writers who have come to seek inspiration among its ruins. Traveling from distant towns that had once been under Roman sway, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Motion, Baths of Caracalla, Death of Keats, English poetry, English romantic poetry, Fanny Brawne, Jeremy Taylor, John Everett Millais, John Keats, Joseph Severn, Keats Ode to a Nightingale, Leon Herbo, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Shelley, Socrates, walter jackson bate, William Blake, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth
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