10 memorable pick-up lines from poetic greats. Try them at a bar near you.
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Tag Archives: John Wilmot
10 Memorable Poetic Pick-Up Lines
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Flea", "Phyllis Be Gentler", "The Lover", "To His Mistress Going to Bed", "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time", Andrew Marvell, Aphra Behn, Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond de Rostand, Jane Austen, John Donne, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Pride and Prejudice, Robert Herrick, Rover, To His Coy Mistress, Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Sexual Misconduct in the Classics
A sexual misconduct course required of all employees got me thinking of problematic situations in the books that I teach.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "The Lover: A Ballad", "Written in a Lady's Prayer Book", Aphra Behn, Bacchae, Charlotte Bronte, Euripides, Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Lucille Clifton, Rape, Rover, Sense and Sensibility, sexual assault, sexual harassment, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Tom Jones Comments closed
Ray Rice, John Wilmot, & Macho Culture
Ray Rice’s fury at his fiancé, like John Wilmot’s distrust of women, shows his inability to move from the world of men to that of women.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Imperfect Enjoyment", domestic abuse, foot ball, Love a Woman, NFL, Ray Rice Comments closed
Wilmot Understands Our Gun Obsession
John Wilmot would understand the obsession of America’s gun extremists.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Satyr against Reason and Mankind", gun control, NRA Comments closed
The Horror of Sex without Love
Sex without love, the subject of several sex comedies this past summer, was also an issue explored by poets and playwrights in the British Restoration.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Against Constancy, Comedy, Country Wife, Film, Friends with Benefits, Libertine, No Strings Attached, sex, Sex without Love, Sharon Olds, William Wycherley Comments closed
The Hell of Doing Whatever We Feel Like
John Wilmot’s poetry stands as a warning against living only for self.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "To the Postboy", David Ferriss, Henry David Thoreau, Self-Help, Seneca, Stoicism, Walden Comments closed