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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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malthus: not found at the love-in
There seems to be more to famine than a mere lack of food. Hunger is always at our door, even in an era like our own. Do people starve simply because there are too many of us? Or, is famine … Continue reading
malthus: specter at the feast
Thomas Robert Malthus. Hunger is always at the door, even in an era like our own. People still die of starvation. Do people starve because there are too many of us ? Or, is famine the necessary companion, the price … Continue reading
elusive secrets: you can’t take it with you
The relationship between surrealism and art in Mexico as both intimate and contentious.The surrealist figures and their representation all seem close-knit and entirely of themselves, inhabiting a peculiar world of frozen motion and dark spaces. It is a separate world … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Antonin Artaud, Charles Baudelaire, Diego Rivera, Edward Lucie-Smith, Frida Kahlo, Jacques Derrida, Jean Paulhan, maria izquierdo, mexican painting, Pablo Picasso, Paule Thevenin, Samuel taylor Coleridge, William Burroughs
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AVOIDING THOSE PERIPHERAL REGIONS OF ROMANCE
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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Tagged Brian McCrea, Byron, C.J. Rawson, Claude Rawson, Coleridge, Fanny Burney, G.M. Godden, Henry Fielding, Henry Fuseli, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Flaxman, John Trusler, Larry Laban, Manfred Weidhorn, Martin C. Battestin, Matthew Wickham, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Peter Jan de Voogd, Rev. John Trusler, Richard Hurd, Richard Nordquist, Robin Bates, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sarah Fielding, Shakespeare, Simon Stein, Simon Varey, Sir Walter Scott, Thackeray, Thomas R. Cleary, Tobias Smollet, William Hazlitt, William Hogarth, William Makepiece Thackeray
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PREOCCUPIED WITH GOODNESS: Almost Forgivable Appetites For Life
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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Tagged Alexander Pettit, Alexander Pope, Aphra Behn, Brian McCrea, C.J. Rawson, Claude Rawson, Daniel Defoe, G.M. Godden, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, Ian Hislop, James Gillray, John Collet, John Trusler, Larry Laban, Laurence Stern, Laurence Sterne, Manfred Weidhorn, Martin C. Battestin, Matthew Wickham, Oliver Goldsmith, Rev. John Trusler, Robin Bates, Russell A. Hunt, Sally Feldman, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sarah Fielding, Simon Varey, Sir Robert Walpole, Thomas Gray, Thomas R. Cleary, Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth
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ONCE UPON A TIME…
Napoleon’s armies overran Germany….”but not only did we seek something of consolation in the past, our hope, naturally, was that this course of ours should contribute somewhat to the return of a better day.” While “foreign persons, foreign manners, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Rackham, Byron, Clemens Brentano, Coleridge, Donald Haase, Edmund Dulac, Friedrich Schiller, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Gustaf Tenggren, Gustaf Tengren, Gustav Mahler, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, Jane Yolen, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Jacobs, Ludwig Achim von Arnim, Marianne Stokes, Narianne Stokes, Novalis, Peter Webb, Philipp Grot johann, Richard Cleasby, Robert Leinweber, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, Theodor Benfey, W.H. Auden, Wilhelm Grimm, William Wordsworth
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GRIMM TERRORS: PASSION FOR THE PRIMITIVE
“The consonants of primitive Germanic keep consistently to the same mouth areas as the corresponding consonants in the older Indo-European languages”. So said the Brothers Grimm in stating their famous law for linguists. Dull fellows? Hardly. Their terrifying tales have … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Rackham, Beethoven, Brothers Grimm, Byron, Charles Darwin, Clemens Bretano, Coleridge, David Hockney, Donald Haase, Edmund Dulac, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack Zipes, Jacob Grimm, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Keats, Keats, Lord Byron, Margaret Hunt, Peter Webb, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, W.H. Auden, Walt Disney, Wilhelm Grimm, William Wordsworth
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JANE AUSTEN & REGULATED HATRED : Humility and Ruthlessness
“… There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them… they were neither of them quite enough in love to think that three hundred and fifty pounds a year would supply them with the comforts … Continue reading
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Tagged Abi Ryan, Alexander Pope, Ben H. Winters, Claudia Jeanette Lockhart, Claudia L. Johnson, D.C. Measham, D.W. Harding, David Lodge, David M. Buss, Edgar Allan Poe, F.R. Leavis, Fanny Burney, Heather Jackson, James Gillray, Jane Austen, Kate Gordon, Kathryn Duncan, Maja Djikic, Mary Brunton, Michael J. Stasio, Nathalie Portman, P.D. James, Richard W. Noland, Robert B. Cialdini, Robert P. Irvine, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Seth Grahame-Smith, Shakespeare, Thomas Rowlandson, Wilkie Collins, William Hogarth, Zoe Brennan
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ROCK HIS GYPSY SOUL: THE STORMY “CORINTHIAN”
“There’s no one more punctual than a woman one doesn’t love” ( “Kean” by Jean Paul Sartre ) From its declining fortunes Drury Lane Theatre was to be rescued, briefly, by the arrival of Edmund Kean, the most fiery and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Noble, Alan Badel, Alexandre Dumas, Antony Sher, Ben Kingsley, Byron, Catharine Savage Brosman, Charles Kean, Charles Kremble, Coleridge, Derek Jacobi, Edmund Kean, Ermette Novelli, George Clint, George Cruickshank, Graham Everett, Harold Bloom, Jane Austen, Jean Paul Belmondo, Jean Paul Sartre, John Keats, John Philip Kemble, John Stone, Jonathan Mulrooney, Lord Byron, Lucius Junius Booth, Percy Shelley, Pierre Brasseur, Robert Cruickshank, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sarah Siddons, Théaulon, William Hazlitt, William Macready
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