FROM PICTURESQUE TO SUBLIME: MARY SHELLEY “The next day we pursued our journey upon mules; and…
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“Him Who First Described What Picturesque Beauty Was”: Jane Austen And William Gilpin (2)
Marianne’s sensitivity to the beauty of the landscape (see post “Jane Austen and the Picturesque”) shows…
Continue ReadingThe Prodigal Son And Jacob And Esau
Both stories present characters whose repentance is expressed as fear they will be given their just…
Continue ReadingWhilst Browsing: A Note On Dostoevsky’s Demons
“In the nineteenth century Russia under the influence of their progressive parents, a generation of educated…
Continue ReadingOn The Picturesque: Jane Austen
From Sense and Sensibility “Edward returned to them with fresh admiration of the surrounding country; in…
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I love the time of year-mid May- when poppies first appear in our garden. I remember…
Continue ReadingCatherine Of “Wuthering Heights”
“I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or…
Continue ReadingThe Journey To Emmaus
St Luke 24. 13-35( KJV 1611) And, behold, two of them went that same day to…
Continue ReadingGood Friday
"The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we…
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