Tag Archives: Geoffrey Chaucer

cockney: semantics and the glottal stop

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Dave

Argot. Jargon. The charm and bane of the vernacular. If anyone is sensitive about accent, its the English. Accent being a key marking point of where to place the individual on the pecking order of a society ultra-conscious of class … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged audrey hepburn my fair lady, augustus edwin mulready, Barbara Windsor, Charles Booth, Charles Dickens, Cockney Rhyming Slang, Constance Rourke, Fabian Society, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Henry Cooper, Henry Mayhew, Jafaican dialect London, Michael Caine cockney, Paul Kerswill, rex harrison my fair lady, The East Enders BBC, thomas sheridan, virginia wolfe cockney | Leave a comment

A RAKE IN PROGRESS: WRITING ROWDY,RAW & REGAL

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Dave

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu prettily characterises Fielding and this capacity for happiness which he possessed, in a little notice of his death when she compares him to Steele, who was as improvident and as happy as he was, and says … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alexander Pope, Cervantes, Coleridge, Don Quixote, G.M. Godden, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Fielding, James Gillray, Jane Austen, John M. Ellis, Jonathan Swift, Lady Mary Whortley, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Nicolai Leskov, Robert Walpole, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Shelby Steele, Sir Walter Scott, Steele and Smollet, Thackeray, Walter Benjamin, Walter E. Allen, William Barker, William Dafoe, William Hogarth, William Makepiece Thackeray | Leave a comment

RESTLESS SPIRITS IN A SILT BOUND CITY

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Dave

In Bruges, it is said that holy candles burn all night in the houses on the eve of All Souls, and the bells toll till midnight, or even till morning. people, too, often set lighted candles on the graves. A … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged All Souls Day, Bruges La Morte, Charles the Bold, Colard Mansion, Dr. Richard Ingersoll, Duke Philip the Good, Elliott O'Donnell, Felicien Rops, Forence Marryat, Geoffrey Chaucer, Georges Rodenbach, Gerard David, Gilles Binchois, Giovanni Arnolfini, Hans Memling, Jan van Eyck, Lucien Levy-Dhurmer, Patrick Bernauw, Petrus Christus, Robert Frazer, Sir james Robert Fraser, The Lost Dutchman, Van Eyck, William Caxton | Leave a comment

PRINCES IN SCALY ARMOR

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Dave

Dragon ladies and water fairies. Fish Maidens, rain mothers and other hybrid critters. Now you see them, now you don’t. These powerful shimmering phenomena of the Chinese imagination reveal themselves but briefly through mist and clouds.Watery nymphs beloved by mortal … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Beowulf, Chinese mythology, Erasmus Darwin, Friedrich de la Motte, Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, Geoffrey Chaucer, Hsia Dynasty, J.W. Waterhouse, John Milton, John Milton Comus, John William Waterhouse, King Nereus, Maclise Undine, Nu Kua, Richard Wagner, Undine Danube nymph, William Blake | Leave a comment

Pete Seeger & the Elephant at Woodstock ( part a )

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Dave

Somewhere, there is a numerologist who had connected to the poetry of numbers and concluded that the 40 th anniversary of Woodstock and the 90 th birthday of Pete Seeger is of statistically coincidental relevence and that the two added … Continue reading →