Showing posts with label CLOUGH Arthur Hugh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CLOUGH Arthur Hugh. Show all posts
Friday, December 18, 2009

The Wuthering Expectations Best of 2009

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Three extra-large Humiliations were crossed off my list: Walden , The Scarlet Letter , and The Flowers of Evil , all highly rewarding.  Let...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Our Scholar travels yet the loved hill-side - sad sack Matthew Arnold finds a genuine hero

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What's eating poor Matthew Arnold? Let's look at "The Scholar-Gipsy" (1853): "the sick fatigue, the languid doubt...
Friday, April 3, 2009

Caffè-latte! I call to the waiter, - and Non c’ è latte, this is the answer he makes me - Arthur Hugh Clough's Rome

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“Rome disappoints me still; but I shrink and adapt myself to it. … Ye gods! What do I want with this rubbish of ages departed, Things that N...
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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Rubbishy seems the word that would exactly suit it - Arthur Hugh Clough's hexameters

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A while back I was reading Longfellow's Evangeline , and it left me wondering about the point of writing English poetry in dactylic hex...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

In which I marvel at the perfectly egg-shaped head of Arthur Hugh Clough - guest starring a blear-eyed pimp

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Look at Arthur Hugh Clough there, on the cover of the Penguin Classics edition of his poems. His head, it is so perfectly egg-shaped. I can...
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Monday, February 23, 2009

Poe's Eureka - angels should exercise caution in the vicinity of Jupiter

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I have been organzing Poe's works by genre, I now see. My default is chronology, but that doesn't work for Poe. He's always doin...
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