Tag Archives: Samuel Johnson

LURKING DISASTERS THAT AWAIT ALL GOOD MEN

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Dave

Peter Pumpkinhead came to town Spreading wisdom and cash around Fed the starving and housed the poor Showed the vatican what gold’s for But he made too many enemies Of the people who would keep us on our knees Hooray … Continue reading →

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HENRY FIELDING :LONDON CALLING & POETIC FAITH

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Dave

London calling to the faraway towns Now war is declared – and battle come down London calling to the underworld Come out of the cupboard,you boys and girls London calling, now don’t look to us Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the … Continue reading →

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HIS MUSE HAD SUNG THE LOUDEST IN TAVERN CHORUSES

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Dave

By the publication of Tom Jones in 1749, Henry Fielding had asserted that the idealized, morally beyond reproach hero is no longer a viable character in literature. The idea of perfectibility was replaced by human flaw and redemption. Secondly, Fielding … Continue reading →

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A RAKE IN PROGRESS: WRITING ROWDY,RAW & REGAL

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Dave

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu prettily characterises Fielding and this capacity for happiness which he possessed, in a little notice of his death when she compares him to Steele, who was as improvident and as happy as he was, and says … Continue reading →

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JANE AUSTEN: Pride & Prejudice Over The Finkler Question

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Dave

…Howard Jacobson grew up in working-class Manchester, to a father who worked as a children’s entertainer and who ran a market stall selling trinkets. Bright, bookish and intellectually ambitious, he studied English literature at Cambridge under the legendary F.R. Leavis. “I’m … Continue reading →

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THE INVISIBLE HAND:Who is the Third Who Walks Always Beside You?

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Dave

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives … Continue reading →

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GUYS & DOLLS:SECRET LIVES IN THE DEER PARK:

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Dave

It was an age often out of character but never out of characters. A new element was in the air: doubt. The Age of Reason had unbolted one of the doors of intellectual history. From that time on, man has … Continue reading →

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BLOOD FLOWERS & HEADS ON THE DOOR

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Dave

A genre of fiction which first gained popularity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the epistolary novel is a form in which most or all of the plot is advanced by the letters or journal entries of one or more … Continue reading →

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LORDLY & LADY PLEASURES : DUELING ABOUT COURTESIES OF CULTURE

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Dave

It was called killing with courtesy and involved all the passions that could raise blood pressure: family, race, wealth, sex, social class , honor and identity. ”On 15 November 1712, two leading scions of the British aristocracy met in a … Continue reading →

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TOTAL RECALL:HAUNTED BY REJECTION

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Dave

”First, the bedpost notches: let’s get them out of the way. In his History of My Life. Casanova records sexual experiences with well over a hundred women – 122 to 136, depending on how one computes certain group and semi-consummated … Continue reading →