I will never forget the effect of reading John Donne for the first time. Donne (1572-1631)…
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Debate Between A Retired Teacher Of English & An Enthusiastic Student On SALLY ROONEY
So large and so significant is English as a literature that you never really lose sight…
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The Names Of Wildflowers: A Vocabulary To Treasure.
Savour the names! Jenkins is writing his response to receiving a copy of Sarah Raven’s “Wild…
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The Third Realm
The Third realm sounds mysterious, perhaps mystical, but is simply like this. It is English class…
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Expanding Science & The Declining Center.
As though the scientific edifice of the modern world were not, in its intellectual depth, complexity…
Continue Reading“Computers Can Write Poetry”: “Yes They Can”; “No They Can’t”.
THis is how the powerful critic F.R. Leavis described the possibility back in 1970 in his…
Continue ReadingWhat Kind Of Reader Are You?
Quotation from Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Readers may be divided into four classes: 1. Sponges, who absorb…
Continue Reading“Enjambment! Or would You Prefer The French Version, Sir?”
( PLEASE NOTE. Having mentioned the term “enjambement” once or twice in my last blog on…
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