Tag Archives: Melvyn Bragg

treading where angels never were

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Dave

Will the messianic era ever reach fruition, or as the hard-core Secularists maintain, Hitchens style, that this absurdity is like pissing in the wind.There are a lot of empty spaces to fill in, and perhaps we are just not seeing … Continue reading →

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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 →

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