Tag Archives: David Wilkie

A NORTHERN WIZARD: Writing For Love, Money & “The Great Unknowns”

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Dave

Like Dickens and Balzac, he wrote because he could not help writing, but he did not think that the chief business of life was to be put into literature; and much as he appreciated his contemporary fame, he does not appear to have cared … Continue reading →

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DISTINCT FROM THE AMBIANCE OF HISTORY

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Dave

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous … Continue reading →