Tag Archives: Sir Walter Scott

HAGGIS & HIGHLANDERS: POETS and PLOWMEN

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Dave

…”Early on, James ( Boswell ) had served notice that he was not cut out to follow in his father’s strait-laced footsteps. Scots are well known for being torn between dour conformity and impetuous rebelliousness, a contradiction emphatically personified by … Continue reading →

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US AND THEM: THE MADCAP LAUGHS

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Dave

Henry Fuseli’s painting “The Mandrake” , now lost, struck the aging Horace Walpole as “shockingly mad, madder than ever, quite mad!” But Fuseli would hardly have regarded that as an insult. Much of the time he was trading on madness … 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 →

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IN THE CLUTCHES OF THE NETHER REACHES

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Dave

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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HOLY WAR OF ''INTELLIGENT DESIGN''

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Dave

”The worst feature of this cosmology is that, rather than presenting a deeper solution to the existential dilemma, it merely reproduces the all-too linear causality we associate with the physical world, with domination and submission, and the enforcement of moral … Continue reading →