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Tag Archives: Percy Shelley
Jesus’s Radical Empathy – Nothing Toxic about It
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Pullman’s Debt to the Romantic Poets
In Secret Commonwealth and Rose Field, Pullman takes inspiration from the great Romantic poets in his quest to keep the imagination open.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Ode to the West Wind", "World is too much with us", “Aeolian Harp", Biographia Literaria, fantasy, Imagination, Intimations of Immortality, Philip Pullman, Rose Field, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Secret Commonwealth, Tintern Abbey, W. H. Auden, William Blake, William Wordsworth Comments closed
Big Beautiful Bill, Perfect in Its Rottenness
The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” was perfect in its rottenness in the same way that William Carlos Williams’s rotten apple is perfect.
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They Oz You Up, Your Mandias
A double parody to lighten your mood—on “Ozymandias” and Larkin’s “This Be the Verse.”
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Trump’s Anarchy vs. No Kings Rallies
Shelley’s “Masque of Anarchy” describes Trumpism’s anarchy but also shows a powerful way to respond.
Irony and the GOP’s Big Beautiful Bill
The GOP’s “big beautiful bill” is perfect in its rottenness–like William Carlos Williams’ rotten apple in “Perfection.”
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Percy Shelley’s Cry for Freedom
“England in 1819,” written to protest George III and the Peterloo Massacre, sounds all too relevant today.
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