In Secret Commonwealth and Rose Field, Pullman takes inspiration from the great Romantic poets in his quest to keep the imagination open.
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Pullman’s Debt to the Romantic Poets
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My Life as Bildungsroman
Upon leaving college, I came to see literature more as a means of escaping my life than as a way of engaging with it more fully. That’s because I was unsatisfied with this life.
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Samuel Beckett’s Tennis Advice
Beckett, a tennis fan, has some lines that can bolster tennis players. Or at least get them through long slogs.
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Let Us Sleep Now
Poetic passages that capture my current feelings of exhaustion.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged “Garden of Prosperine", Charles Algernon Swinburne, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Wilfred Owen Comments closed
Classics to the Rescue in Dark Times
In Trump’s first 100 days, Jill Lepore turned to 100 classics to survive.
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Trump as Dracula and Ancient Mariner
Maureen Dowd compares Trump to Dracula and the Ancient Mariner. The comparisons are worth exploring.
Gods Speaks through the Imagination
Jesus’s parables are exercises in imagining the kingdom of heaven come to earth.
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Sickness Strikes Again
I my recent bout with Covid, passages from “Heart of Darkness” and “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” came to mind.
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