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Surprised by the joy of Wordsworth
The very mention of the phrase “British Romantic Poetry” is bound to elicit a collective wince. A bit of literary forensics will shed some perspective and hopefully some insight into …
A short missive on Shakespeare and Sonnet #2
Typically the purveyor of Shakespeare’s Sonnets is likely to be a dewy-eyed romantic or a reedy-looking professor of English with a corduroy sport jacket with reinforced elbows. Well, since I …
Sense and Sensibility. John Updike.
In late November 1961, a 29-year-old John Updike finished the draft of his short story, In Football Season. Since we share equally aquiline noses, this story has always been among …
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