I have not done much in this relatively new formant which I like to think of as the equivalent of the short poems Lawrence wrote when he was too ill and tired to do anything else ('Pansies' he called them because that English word is derived from Pensées). Not that standard he set would be easy to reach! Some of these blogs have been posted on the website of Wordsworth Classics and others were written with members of the D. H. Lawrence Society in mind. But mainly they are for anyone who has happened to wander in my direction. They are not all about literature. One that is relatively recent, for example, deals with the problem of money in sport and is called
'Local heroes' (see under 'Musings') . In 'Texts for our Times' there is a blog with the self-explanatory title
'Boris, Byron and the 2019 general election' and another that considers the relevance of Defoe's
Journal of the Plague Year to our condition today (in 2020).
Dickens
November 5th, 2024
If there were a prize for the most unpleasant character in Nicholas Nickleby it would be hotly contested. Prominent among the contestants would of course be Wackford Squeers, the ignorant barbarian who runs a school in Yorkshire for boys
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November 5th, 2024
The frequent talk during the recent election of food banks, and the number of children living in poverty, must have brought Oliver Twist to many minds. Thanks partly to countless dramatizations, several films and above all perhaps the musical,
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