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malthus: whimsey for the sullen men of property
Malthus. The theory that, essentially, the poor should not reproduce as they strain the food supply, which will be outdistanced, inevitably by population growth, leading to that final leg of human misery: famine, starvation and death. Alas, the flesh being … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dickens, Philip Hermogenes Calderon, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Robert Malthus, William Godwin, William Hazlitt
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DISTURBING THE RHYTHM OF COMEDY
Epic deception. And arriving at the altar with a faint pulse.That was the view of Sarah Fielding, author and sister of Henry Fielding. The epic notion of the “great end” enters the comic novel as the marriage that sanctifies the culture … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pettit, Alexander Pope, Austin Dobson, C.J. Rawson, Claude Rawson, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel Defoe, Delavier Manley, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, G.M. Godden, Godden, Jean Antoine Watteau, Johann Zoffany, John Trusler, Lady Mary Chudleigh, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Larry Laban, Matthew Wickham, Nancy Armstrong, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Ros Ballaster, Sally Feldman, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Thomas Gainsborough, Voltaire, William Hazlitt, William Hogarth, Zoffany
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IN THE CLUTCHES OF THE NETHER REACHES
Fate sits on these dark battlements, and frowns, And, as the portals open to receive me, Her voice, in sullen echoes through the courts, Tells of a nameless deed. ( Anne Radcliffe ) Horace Walpole set a pattern with his … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Radcliffe, Antonin Artaud, Coleridge, Edgar Allen Poe, Giambattista Piranesi, Gothic literature, Horace Walpole, John Mallard William Turner, John Pettie, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Lord Byron, Marquis de Sade, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Matthew gregory Lewis The Monk, Nicolai Abraham Abilgaard, Salvator Rosa, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Sir Walter Scott, William Beckford, William Beckford Vathek
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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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