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Tag: genre

90. (Andrew Marvell)

Yesterday’s post on Andrew Marvell perhaps flew too high in abstraction; the thought that literature might be classified by tolerance … More

Andrew Marvell, comedy, genre, George Eliot, pastoral, Poetry, satire, tragedy, wit

89. (Andrew Marvell)

When T.S. Eliot, in his essay on Andrew Marvell, offered his incomparably confusing characterization of “wit,” what was he onto? … More

Andrew Marvell, Baudelaire, Christopher Ricks, genre, Michael Wood, Poetry, T.S. Eliot, waste, William Empson, wit
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