Tag Archives: Henry Fielding

sages of the stoop and curb

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Dave

In New York, people of all sorts freely mix with each other; but only slightly do they thaw and melt into a common pool of humanity. Edward Adler: Notes From a Dark Street. 1962. ….Martyrdom and suffering recounted in some … Continue reading →

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london calling : crumb’s boswell journal

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Dave

Adult sexual obsession. A madness that is disquietingly normal. The madness of the ordinary.The kind of torment that completes itself in sexual obsession. There is something uncanny in Robert Crumb’s caricatures of James Boswell, something that connects bad and bawdy … Continue reading →

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mike waterson: today bright phoebus is smiling

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Dave

The Guardian:As the seminal traditional folk group of the 1960s, with Mike as the male lead singer, the Watersons toured the country with traditional English songs in harmony and largely unaccompanied, breaking the mould of guitar and banjo-led folk groups. … Continue reading →

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AVOIDING THOSE PERIPHERAL REGIONS OF ROMANCE

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Dave

Call it a poetic faith whose satisfying sense of wonder compelled them to stop short of that marvellous and enticing flame of Promethean enchantment. Heros zigzagging with tolerable chance. “…in the preface to Tom Jones , Fielding formally asserted his belief … Continue reading →

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PREOCCUPIED WITH GOODNESS: Almost Forgivable Appetites For Life

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Dave

Tom Jones was perpetually in delicate situations. As Henry Fielding remarked in one of his digressions,” It is not enough that your designs, nay, that your actions are intrinsically good; you must take care that they appear so.” Tom was … Continue reading →

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LURKING DISASTERS THAT AWAIT ALL GOOD MEN

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Dave

Peter Pumpkinhead came to town Spreading wisdom and cash around Fed the starving and housed the poor Showed the vatican what gold’s for But he made too many enemies Of the people who would keep us on our knees Hooray … Continue reading →

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HIS MUSE HAD SUNG THE LOUDEST IN TAVERN CHORUSES

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Dave

By the publication of Tom Jones in 1749, Henry Fielding had asserted that the idealized, morally beyond reproach hero is no longer a viable character in literature. The idea of perfectibility was replaced by human flaw and redemption. Secondly, Fielding … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alexander Pope, Alpha Ben, Daniel Defoe, Edmund Fielding, G.M. Godden, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, Jonathan Swift, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Larry Laban, Laurence Stern, Laurence Sterne, Manfred Weidhorn, Ralph Allen, Ralph Allen Bath, Robert Walpole, Robin Bates, Russell A. Hunt, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Thomas R. Cleary, William Hogarth | 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 →

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A DIRGE ABOUT A ROCK AND HARD PLACE

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Dave

The English novel is a phenomenon that only took form in the early years of the 18th century, and is generally attributed to Daniel Defoe. Prior to this time, stories were told either in dramatic form on the stage, or … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Carl Jung, Carol Flyn, Daniel Defoe, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, English literature, George Butte, Henry Fielding, Henry James, Jane Austen, Jane Collier, Jocelyn Harris, Lisa Zunshine, Paul Woodruff, Samuel Richardson, Samuel Richardson Clarissa, Sarah Fielding, Saskia Wickham, Sean Beam, Sir Thomas Roe, Sir Walter Scott | Leave a comment

CLARISSA: NO PLACE LEFT TO HIDE

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Dave

It is the prose of suspicion; an uncovering of layers of disconcerting awareness between its lines. Samuel Richardson’s ( 1689-1761 ) ambitious narrative of tragic seduction is traced through the hundreds of letters written between Clarissa Harlowe, her confidante Anna Howe, … Continue reading →