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… with infinitude. . . With hope it is, hope that can never die, Effort, and expectation, and desire, And something … a depth Proceed thy honours. ( The Prelude , XII, 269—273) Wordsworth’s remarkable re-creating of such an … more remarkable because with this metaphor of time he first points the way to the place where all imaginative vision …
Essays
… but, and trod the lanes of Amherst helplessly trying to compose in it, who did his own impressions of it at his own … for a tiny South Atlantic islet dotted with sheep; Admirals Drake and Nelson were invoked in the defence of Empire, … War’s annals will cloud into night Ere their story die. The word cloud there has a convulsive effect on my gut …
Criticism
… Killing Ourselves Softly Complicity in Modern America At a writing conference several … of a Tuesday-night meal in his house, a meal swamped in Daddies Brown Sauce, which “glugs from the bottle, smothering … chapter to songs about grown men lusting after children. He points out the obvious—the Police’s massive hit “Don’t Stand …
… are not eligible for college sports. Unless they can compete as members of amateur clubs or teams, they will have … two poles of that persona only repel one another or do they also attract and reinforce each other? Do scholar-athletes … predictable—directions. Adults will not always root for studies and peers for sports. The pressures may be just the …
Poetry
Family Court Though the mother does not take drugs to keep her calm, the father is obviously placid. The child is the boat they all climb on, even the guard. This is a saga about seasickness. The judge begins by considering the mother’s legs as she flips …
… Britain to the present. Porter’s treatment of Roman and medieval London is spare; he lavishes most of his attention on … city and the transformation of its social life during the commercial and industrial revolutions of that century is … criticism and psychoanalysis, and he has many interesting points to make about the central importance of censorship in …