My grandson’s tiny body and large head brought to mind Edward Lear’s Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
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Tag Archives: Alexander Pope
Lear’s Nonsense Perfect for Children
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The Worst Poem Ever Published?
The worst poem ever published may be William McGonagall’s “The Tay Bridge Disaster.”
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Hope Springs Eternal in the NFL Draft
The NFL draft perfectly exemplifies Alexander Pope’s passage about hope.
The Right Wing’s War on Science
Tim O’Brien describes a character for whom facts are formed by sensation. Sounds like today’s right wing.
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Justice’s Alimentary Imperative
Alexander Pope understood that justice is best served on a full stomach.
The End of the World As We Know It?
A number of poets have written poems about the apocalypse. But it’s always figurative, never literal.
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Federer: Floating Butterfly, Stinging Bee
In the immortal words of Muhammad Ali, Roger Federer floated like a butterfly, stung like a bee as he won his 7th Wimbledon title yesterday.
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Literary Reflections on QEII’s Coronation
A. S. Byatt points to the renewal symbolism that Britain found in the the coronation of Queen Elizabeth 60 years ago.
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