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Leavis on Johnson the Augustan
Every word in a piece of Augustan verse has an air of being able to give the reason why it has been chosen, and placed just there. The thoughts that the Augustan poet, like any other Augustan writer,...
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Book Recommendations: Two Pairs
I don’t explicitly or directly recommend lots of books here, although I mention or quote from many and often make it clear that I think highly of them. But, as I rode my bike in this morning, I...
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Newman on the Human Condition
To consider the world in its length and breadth, its various history, the many races of man, their starts, their fortunes, their mutual alienation, their conflicts; and then their ways, habits,...
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The Difficulty of Ending (*Chuck*)
[A short excerpt from the penultimate chapter of the Chuck book. The working title of the book is Chuck: Nerd Herder and Girl Impossible. Beware: this definitely contains spoilers.] I suspect that...
View ArticleWalden’s Epigraph 2: Ode to Dejection?
In Boswell’s Life of Johnson (I think, I haven’t had time to check), an old acquaintance accosts Johnson to tell him that he (the acquaintance) had tried, like Johnson, to be a philosopher. “But,” the...
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